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- From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
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- Date: 12 Aug 92 21:22:04 GMT
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- In article <65695@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt1619a@prism.gatech.EDU (James is just this guy, you know...) writes:
-
- > There's also other reasons... A Mac is a poor choice as a dumb terminal,
-
- Any computer is a poor choice as a dumb terminal. If all you want is a
- dumb terminal, buy a dumb terminal.
-
- > for example. Frankly, you don't need much more than about $200 of PC
- > hardware for that and whoever buys a Mac for that purpose should see a
- > psychologist about the problem. On the other hand, MS-DOS is far from
- > the best choice for, let's say, page layout. Each machine has it's ups
- > and downs and areas in which it excels, and literate people buy their
- > machines based on this; illiterate people listen to their friends or
- > buy the ones they see the funniest ads for (after all, everyone takes
- > advice from someone who hasn't a clue).
- >
- > Personally, I have a Mac SE/30, and an Amiga 3000. The Mac cost more
- > than the Amiga, but I have a wider range of commercial software for it.
- > My Amiga has more quality PD software for it. The Mac has alot better
- > PostScript support than the Amiga, though the Amiga does have the added
- > capability to print PostScript on non-PostScript printers.
-
- With Freedom of Press, you can print PostScript to almost any PostScript
- printer from the Mac.
-
- > The Amiga
- > is quite a bit faster has more interface options, multitasks well, and
- > its applications are much more tightly integrated than Mac System 7
- > allows. My Mac has an equation editor though. All of my research is done
- > on the Amiga though because the OS provides so much more support for
- > the work I need to do (the Mac, actually provides little to no support
- > for the type of data-processing and calculations I do).
-
- How are the applications more tightly integrated than system 7 allows?
- This is the first time I've heard this claim for the Amiga. What interface
- options does the Amiga have that the Mac doesn't have? I'll grant that
- the Mac doesn't have a parallel port, and without getting into the necessity
- of a parallel port, I'll grant this point. What kind of data processing and
- calculations do you do that the Amiga supports better than the Mac?
-