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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Investing in a IIgs
Message-ID: <13761@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 6 Sep 90 21:08:10 GMT
References: <15800135@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <15800135@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs225ck@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>I am considering invensting in a 'new' pc system soon.  Right now, I use my
>trusty Apple //e and have for the past 4-5 years or so.  At any rate, my
>progblem is deciding whether or not to get a IIgs or go up to a Macintosh.

You didn't indicate what your application needs really are, so the
question cannot be answered properly.  However, one consideration is
that your Apple //e software should, for the most part, continue to
be usable on a IIGS, whereas it wouldn't be on a Mac (at least, not
for a while and not affordably).  I would also note that if a IIGS
doesn't meet your needs due to lack of commercial software, then an
IBM PC clone is more likely to meet your needs than a Macintosh,
since most personal computer software is now provided for IBM PC and
only some of it eventually shows up for other machines.