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- From: terjer@ifi.unit.no (Terje Rydland)
- Subject: Re: Macs vs. PC's (or... I want the best of both worlds!)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.071426.3128@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Ifi, University of Trondheim / AVH
- References: <92233.140635REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 07:14:26 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <92233.140635REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
- writes:
- >
- > Flame retardant suit on? Check!...
- > OK- here goes. I love the Mac - for what it was intended as. The
- >seemless integration of software & hardware, etc. The fact that even
- >Microsoft can write GOOD software for it, etc. Windows and Word for
- >Windows are (currently) shallow imitations of the Mac version. Computer
- >Associates should be shot for that shoddy piece of shit they pawned off
- >as a Windows version of Cricket Graph..... For these reasons (and
- >Superpaint, which noone has matched on the PC) I will never forsake the
- >MAC (completely).
- >
- > The Mac's weak points are (for the "affordable" models) the inability
- >to customize the hardware. Data acquisition on the Mac is as tedious
- >as data & report presentation on the PC. Also the dreadfully slow
- >execution time. (this normalized to price...) A Mac Clasic II is roughly
- >equivalent (in intention) to a 386SX-16. By the time you add an operating
- >system, they both run you about $1200. With the PC, you have EXPANSION
- >slots, you can make something of it! (OTOH, I'm buying a Clasic II to work
- >on my dissertation & research proposals - I still don't own a PC.)
- > So, OK. At the low end, Apple has taken a bite out of their prices...
- >I understand a Quadra is a $10000 system!
-
- Come to Norway. Now you will get a Quadra 700 w/16" Apple colour screen
- for about 5000 US$ (and taht's in a country that is known to be expensive!)
- BTW this is slightly (just slightly!) more than I will have to pay for a 486/50
-
- (and then I don't get SCSI, 24 bit colour and ethetnet, all of which
- are important to me!)
-
- Terje
-