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From: navas@sim.uucp (David C. Navas)
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Subject: Re: Info on new low-end Mac
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Date: 21 Jul 90 16:56:10 GMT
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In article <27545@athertn.Atherton.COM> paul@Atherton.COM (Paul Sander) writes:
>Okay, the Mac is $1480 more expensive than the Amiga, but many
>people believe the extra cost is justified because of the increased
>availability of quality applications, widespread support, better-informed
>dealer staff, etc. etc.  The lower-end Mac-compatible monitors seem to be
That's funny...
The biggest beef my father has, dealing with Apple, is that he can't
(as a business) direct order from Apple, and has to go to a local dealership
for both purchases and repair.  His complaint is that all Apple-carrying
stores seem to be holes in the wall.  But he can't do without those
machines... BIG MONITORS.

The only reason I'd pay another $1500 for a computer is if I needed a big
monitor, or I liked being able to open up my machine a lot.

For this extra $1500 I get -- AppleTalk, now ain't that special :)
I also get -- a slower bus interface, less room for internal memory,
multi-tasking-by-Apple, non-standard-Unix, etc, etc.

I wonder if the MacIIci comes with a 68882, not an 881?  I don't know --
just thought of that question...

>Note:  This is not a flame for or against any machine.  They're just my
>observations during my recent visits to the local stores.

Neither is this a flame -- there just seems to be darn good reasons to
buy an Amiga too, though I would personaly wait until the A3000 is shipping
in volume with 2.0ROM's if I were a new user...

Of course, in price, there are even better reasons to buy a '386 machine.
The question is what you want to use it for, and what each machine is good
at doing.  Of course, I would suggest buying AMax...  Wait until the new one,
amd wait until the A3000 has ROMs.  I don't think even the new AMax will be
able to handle the way the 3000 uses the MMU to bootstrap its ROMs...

>-- 
>Paul Sander        (408) 734-9822  | "Passwords are like underwear," she said,
>paul@Atherton.COM                  | "Both should be changed often."
>{decwrl,pyramid,sun}!athertn!paul  | -- Bennett Falk in "Mom Meets Unix"

David Navas                                   navas@sim.berkeley.edu
"Excuse my ignorance, but I've been run over by my train of thought."  -me