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From: shankar@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Subash Shankar)
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Subject: Re: Appleworks GS advice sought
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Date: 2 Oct 90 18:37:43 GMT
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In article <7418@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>In article <94606@srcsip.UUCP> shankar@SRC.Honeywell.COM I write:

>> [statement that AWGS 1.1 wasn't a significant enough difference for me to 
>>  upgrade to it]
>
>	Not any significant improvements??
>
>	If I'm correct, which I think I am (or roughly so on this issue),
>AppleWorks GS loads an order of magnitude faster.. I don't have AppleWorks
>GS, so I can't tell for sure... But I believe that it was advertized that
>AppleWorks GS now loads in ~15 seconds for all modules off of a hard
>disk (obviously with System 5.0x and using QuickLoad/FastLoad/whatever-it's-
>called)...


Yes, you're correct (at least, according to the flyers), but is this an upgrade
worth the amount Claris was charging?  If I recall correctly, the amount was in
the $30-$50 range.  

Also, on my Transwarped system with a 19 ms. hard drive, it only takes me about
10-20 secs to load the modules I normally use (spreadsheet, word processor,
and/or database) under 5.0.2, so any speed improvements (say 10 sec. ?) are
unlikely to buy much.

I guess the main reason I'm writing this is (if Claris is listening) to say
that if Claris didn't get any sales on the upgrades, then I hope they don't
assume it indicates a lack of interest in AWGS.  I know others who felt the
same way as I did about the upgrade, though I don't doubt that some people were
well served by the upgrade.  Either the upgrade was too little for too much or
it's improvements were under-marketed.
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