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- From: thompson@UMDSUN2.UMD.UMICH.EDU (joshua m. thompson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Comments Anyone?
- Message-ID: <9212281538.AA15646@umdsun2.umd.umich.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 15:38:18 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- >I agree PC's are better. first of all their are more programs for
- >the PC than the MAC. second of all the MAC's are more expensive than
- >the PC's and third of all the MAC are always discontinued within
- >4 or 5 months. If you get a PC that says "intel inside" you know
- >you will have that computer for a while. IBM cares about the consumer
- >while APPLE cares about money, money, money " " " " etc
-
- Part of the reason there are more applications for the PC is because it came
- out several years before the first Ma. Plus the first macs weren't all that
- hot either.
-
- I personally own a IIGS, and Mac II, a 386sx, and even a couple of Apple III
- systems (!). I still love my IIGS more than any of the others, but there is
- nothing wrong with my mac either (I'll probably like it more when I really get
- into programming it :). Mac-bashing is childish IMHO; it's just a way for a
- bunch of people to vent anger at Apple Computer, Inc.
-
- Who cares if a machine discontinued? Your IIGS is discontinued as of Dec 14th
- you know. A typical Mac life cycle is 6 months. Computer technology advances
- rapidly and customers want the top of the line technology NOW. This translates
- into constant upgrades to a company's product line (ie, new Macs). If the old
- ones didn't get axed, the product line would be unfathomably huge.
-
- As to customer support, IBM ain't all that much better, especially when it
- comes to their corporate accounts ("we're sorry, but that was our standarsix
- [standard] six months ago; you need all new equipment now!"). Furthermore,
- MS-DOS software developers are more than happy to write software that only
- runs on high-end machines (game companies are really bad : 386 or higher?
- Sheesh!). If you bought a 286 in the past few years, you're virtually screwed
- nowadays. I don't see any big plan from IBM or anyone else to those people, do
- you?
-
- And yes, I know "MS-DOS 5.0 runs on even a PCjr". But hell, even my "little"
- GS can access more than 640k without resorting to stupid tricks and $70
- memory managers (DOS's EMM386.EXE ain't all that hot, you need QEMM).
-