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From: awessels@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: Rumor -> Loss of Mac's 20% advantage over Windows 3.0
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Date: 2 Jul 90 20:34:32 GMT
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In article <804@intelisc.isc.intel.com> cfj@isc.intel.com (Charlie Johnson) writes:

>her how much we paid (and we bought it used!!) she said :
>
>     1. I could get a PC AT of 1/3 the price.

Not a similarly-equipped AT she couldn't.  My SE/30 has a math co-processor,
stereo sound chip, built-in SCSI, built-in network support, and a much
better OS (IMHO, not intended to start flame war).  Add that to the price
of that AT and you don't end up with a 1/3 cost.  (Besides, my SE/30 is faster 
than any "stinking" AT clone.)

However, if all you ever plan on doing with your SE/30 is what she does with
her AT, you made the wrong computer choice.

>     2. I could never survive with the small screen.

I've never understood this.  I can get 80x25 columns on my Mac, and if we're
talking resolution, 72 dpi ain't bad.  If you want a "bigger" picture, slap
one of those "magnifiers" on the front of your machine.

>     3. No color ??

Well, I'm gonna add color as soon as the price of hi quality monitors comes
down a bit.  Not only thhat, I won't lose the use of my built-in screen either.

I have an AT on my desk at work.  It does what it does just fine, but I can't
get near the flexibility for it that  can with my Mac.  I'd take my SE/30 up
against any power 386 setup in a general purpose test of "what can you do"
any day.

If all you want is word processing, spreadsheet, and telcomm functions, you 
have lots of cost-cutter options.  You don't even need an AT for that.

>I know that Apple is trying to address this with the new so called low cost
>Mac.  Reality is that you must have a competitive price to get people in
>the door.  Only then will user interface become an issue.  

I wish the Mac market had the numbers the DOS market has on its side, but if
it is a choice between running zillion programs under the Mac OS, and a
zillion DOS programs under Windows (with a few Windows prorgams), the choice
is an easy one for me.