Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!shelby!portia.stanford.edu!jessica.stanford.edu!aaron From: aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Rumor -> Loss of Mac's 20% advantage over Windows 3.0 Message-ID: <1990Jul2.193917.25255@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 2 Jul 90 19:39:17 GMT References: <59351.268ED7B6@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <42559@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: Aaron Wallace Organization: Academic Information Resources Lines: 36 In article <42559@apple.Apple.COM> daveo@Apple.COM (David M. O'Rourke) writes: >Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes: > The un-informed masses buying windows instead of a Mac could be a problem. >The qualities of a Macintosh over a DOS machine are hard to demonstrate to >a user concerned about price, and with most sales people's everlasting >concern for the Customer's well being, well you can figure out the rest.... Aside: People here keep talking abou the "qualities of a Macintosh." I've been using Macs for about 4 years. Enlighten me. End aside. > My only question is with the typical non-computer person buying a Window's >machine, becoming upset since it doesn't appear to be all that "great". What >will they think of the Macintosh, after all they've heard its the same. But to a lot of people Windows will be great. Those who don't like Windows probably 1) prefer the Mac and should've gotten one or 2) don't like GUIs and would dislike the Mac just as much. Maybe they'll realize that GUIs are not the end-of-all-computer-pain placebos they're pushed by some vendors as. Believe it or not there are people who find the Mac as hard to use as anything. > Window's running on cheap underpowered clones might do more to damage the >computer industries strides in getting people over computer phobia than >DOS ever did.... Why do we all assume that people are going to be getting "underpowered" machines? Windows needs an AT--that's on the box. No one I know of sells ATs that are slower than 10 MHz--even IBM's home computers are 10 MHz 286s. A 10 MHz AT runs Windows at roughly the same clip as a Mac Plus/SE runs System 6.0.. Either 1) the Plus/SE Macs are underpowered or 2) the Windows person will be as happy as the Plus/SE user. I leave you to decide. >daveo@apple.com David M. O'Rourke Aaron Wallace