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- From: Kaz.Karl@f1138.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Kaz Karl)
- Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
- Path: sparky!uunet!blkcat!Uucp
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: RE-MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <714823281.F00001@blkcat.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:29:13 -0500
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- Oh, be real...Perhaps you can buy an si for $2500, but that clunky machine is
- the equivilant of the 396SX I just got for a client for six hundred new...and
- Mac charges for it's >own< OS software, if you want a legitamate copy...and OS/2
- is actully cheaper...and of course you can get a simple freeware utility to
- convert Mac TT Fonts to Windows and back...
- As for DOS users only having two useful programs...even if that poll was
- accurate(it certainly doesn't typify any of my clients/friends), the implication
- that this was because of the difficulty of installation causing DOS users to
- fail to purchase more software is just silly speculation...There's nothing to
- demonstrate that this isn't actually voluntary and to the user's advantage...
- Nothing bugs me more than this sillyness of trying to believe one's own
- machine is the best at everything...You'd better face the facts: DOS machines
- have some serious advantages over Macs...like the limitations the Mac resources
- set on application design allow DOS programs to be more vertical, that is, they
- can be designed to be the >best< at what they do, not crippled by being
- universally recognisable...you can't buy accounting or database software for the
- Mac that is anything better than middle-of the road on a DOS machine...I should
- know, I work with both...And take BBSs...there's absolutely nothing for the GUI
- forced on Mac designers to do...it just wastes power that could be used to
- process the character chains that are all even boards with GUI emulating
- clientware use...
- And even on the GUI is better end...Amiga has a much better interface than
- Mac, and handles Multimedia in a way that makes Quicktime even more of a
- pathetic embarrasement than it already is...but of course Amiga users are just
- as rediculous about claiming their machines are the be-all and end-all as Mac
- users, and they are dying from lack of third party support...
-
- Give-take...each has it's strengths and weaknesses...and face it, Mac is still
- in second...and this is from someone using a ci...
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