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- From: jlinton@pro-scat.cts.com (Jeremy Linton)
- Subject: Re: Comments Anyone?
- Organization: ProLine [pro-scat] St. Petersburg, Florida.
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 00:21:33 EST
- Message-ID: <lm01808@pro-scat.cts.com>
- In-Reply-To: irie@husc11.harvard.edu (Robert E. Irie)
- References: <IRIE.92Dec21005033@husc11.harvard.edu>
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- >2) My next machine WILL be a 486, or if I am lucky, a Sun. I will
- >never purchase a Mac and any recommendations I make to friends will
- >have a definite bias towards PC's. This is based not only in my anger
- >at what Apple Co did to the II, but in a firm belief that PC's ARE
- >better than Macs.
- This is my attitude and quite a few other apple users feelings. I
- have over time watched previous apple owners skip over and buy ms dos
- machines instead of putting themselves on the line with a mac. And as far
- as the comparison between the machines hardware.. The dos machine has now
- far surpassed the mac. With the doubler tecnology allowing 66mhz machines
- and the 40,59 mhz non dx2 machines the 486 with it's reduced instruction
- timing and floating point instructions have blew the 68xxx series out of
- the water in comparison. Video on the pc is just as good with cheap cards
- like the diamond speedstar 24 and boca xvga that are
- "coprocessed / accelerated" supporting 16.4 million colors (24 bit) and
- resolutions up to 1280,1024 all for around $100 to $160. Sound cards for
- $100 to $200 that support every thing from 44.1 mono to 88.2 mono and 22khz
- sterio to 44.1 sterio. So to say it in fewer words it is possible to buy a
- machine for $2000 that far out preforms the top of the line macs.
- The big line about the macs being so easy to use is pure BS!! error
- messages that display 16 bit error codes sure seem "friendly" compartivly
- to descriptive error messages. If you were to go cold turkey on a mac do
- you think you would be able to change your printer from a imagewriter to a
- laserwriter? How about if your hd crashes and you want to retrieve all your
- data... 2 or 3 flips of a floppy to boot and then about 40 to get norton
- up.
- A teacher who admits being just about computer iliterate said that
- he thinks the apple ][ is so much simpler to use because he selects the
- program he wishes to run from his diskbox puts it in the drive and turns
- the computer on. From there on it prompts him with english phrases like
- "press 1 to print document.. 2 to save document to disk .. 3 retrieve
- document from disk." Where is on the mac he has to know to move the mouse
- over to a little square on the screen press the button twice scroll through
- thousands of little pictures that mean nothing and then find the one he
- wants and press the button twice , and it doesn't help when it's titled
- works and has a picture of a W!
-
- Jlinton
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