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From: mholtz@sactoh0.UUCP (Mark A. Holtz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: My next personal computer will be a PC
Keywords: PC
Message-ID: <2968@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 90 20:11:30 GMT
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Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA
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I hate to be saying this, but . . . . 

	MY NEXT COMPUTER PURCHASE WILL BE A IBM-PC.

It is going to be awfully hard to convince me that my next purchase
ought to be a Apple //-gs. Why?

First, IMHO, many small businesses are now using IBM-PC clones.
The place where I work at just acquired a PC a few months back
simply because the software which we needed to run was available
for the IBM-PC only. 

There is a lot more software now available for the PC than the
Apple // (partially out of Apple's lack of support for the
II-series).

For $3,000, I can purchase a good 386 machine running at 20 MHZ
with 800 x 600 color graphics resolution with at last 65 MB hard
drive, a 1.2 Meg 5.25" drive, a 1.44 Meg 3.5" drive, and 1 Meg of
memory.

The competition in the IBM PC market allows for the making of
faster and better machines. (Just take a aspirin while browsing
through the pages).

However . . . 

The IBM-PC's and Macintoshes are prone to more viruses than Apples,
due to the sheer number of machines that are out there. (At last
count, there were at least 60 viruses categorized for the IBM-PC
alone (according to McAfee)).

Compatability is sometimes a question, due to all of the different
brands that are out there.

Well, what do you folks think?
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