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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!gatech!taco!bjmiller
- From: bjmiller@eos.ncsu.edu (BRENT JAMES MILLER)
- Subject: Mac vs. IBM / Intel vs. Motorola
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.165751.23179@ncsu.edu>
- Originator: bjmiller@c00084-100lez.eos.ncsu.edu
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: bjmiller@eos.ncsu.edu (BRENT JAMES MILLER)
- Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:57:51 GMT
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- Hello everyone,
- I am in need of assistance. I am an IBM user and have had little
- experience with Macs. I am on several local BBS's where a lot, I mean
- A LOT of Mac and IBM bashing goes on. Now, of course I stick up for IBM, and
- it's also amusing to watch the other users get irritated and say stupid things
- (the average user age on the particular board to which I am referring is 14),
- but I am as ignorant about Macs as they are about IBM. The keep referring to
- these "speed tests" and "benchmarks", but no one can seem to remember who
- performed them or under what conditions, etc. These users have also requested
- that I upload specs on Intel microprocessors (which is what I have been doing
- for months now) so that they can compare them to Motorolla processors. What
- I really would like is an UNBIASED comparison of Mac and IBM, as well as Intel
- and Motorolla. In addition, I would like to be referred to a GOOD technical
- reference manual for Macs in my everlasting pursuit of knowlege. I'm not asking
- for anyone to tell me how good the Macs are or how crappy the IBM's are because
- I like my IBM and I'm not going to buy a Mac, I merely wish to become more
- educated on the subject so that I don't sound as ignorant as the afore mentioned
- Mac using "IBM experts". For example, I have a very good book called "Upgrading
- and Repairing PC's" published by QUE (I like QUE books very much and have
- several others). If any of you are familiar with this book, I am looking for
- the same type of thing with regard to a Mac. Thanks for any help you can
- provide.
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