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- From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
- Subject: Re: Comments Anyone?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.114636.26668@utstat.toronto.edu>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <IRIE.92Dec21005033@husc11.harvard.edu> <lm01808@pro-scat.cts.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 11:46:36 GMT
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- In article <lm01808@pro-scat.cts.com> jlinton@pro-scat.cts.com (Jeremy Linton) writes:
-
- [Quotes someone who indicates next computer to be a PC/Sun...]
-
- > 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 486 and 040 are roughly comparable, but the graphics situation in the PC
- world is a mess. Few programs support 24 bit colour, and you have to keep
- restarting Windows to deal with the support for the different graphics modes.
- The PC world is still largely DOS, is still a pain, no clear OS winner in
- sight. I've had more interrupt, DMA and adressing conflicts to last me a
- lifetime with my 486. Try putting one on a network, add sound, cD-ROM, etc...
- and then you'll see the elegance of the Gs and the Mac's.
-
- > 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.
-
- Printing from a Mac is every bit as easy and the computer is far more friendly.
-
- > 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!
-
- Please! Printing on the Mac is ably accomplished by my kids. Same goes with the
- GS. I have no experience with II's so can't say there.
-
- Philip McDunnough
- philip@utstat.toronto.edu
-