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From: bb0@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Bowie Bailey)
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Subject: Re: New (Still Unofficial but Everyone Knows They Exist) Macs
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Date: 4 Oct 90 15:35:32 GMT
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In article <1990Oct1.195457.24180@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) writes:
>GS owners should cry the least, as one could view this new machine as
>the ultimate GS upgrade - it now runs Mac stuff. Not just reads the
>disks, but runs its software. It has the standardized graphics modes
>(I HATE dithering! It's a cheat - they call it higher spacial
>resolution and higher color resolution, but it's not! Only one or the
>other!) The Mac has nice high spacial and color resolution because the
>hardware really can do it. And, I can pop in a different video card if
>I want more - I don't have to beg the company to produce Yet Another
>Computer.

And why shouldn't this GS user cry?  I've sunk well over $2000 into my system
(a good bit less than most).  I have a huge box of //e games and quite a
few GS games.  Now Apple wants me to junk this machine(who is going to buy
a GS now?) and buy a Mac?  This Mac will not run any of the nice games that
I've bought for the GS, I'll have to buy new ones.  Will the //e card allow
the Mac to run my DOS 3.3 things?  I rather doubt it.  It will have better
graphics which would be nice for GIF conversions.  And what about sound?
I don't know about this, but can the Mac approach the sound quality of the GS?

>
>I'm waiting to see what Apple produces before I scream bloody murder.

I'm waiting too, but I'm not expecting much.

>In fact, it just might be the machine I want. It'll allow me a smooth
>transition into the Mac world (something I've wanted to do for about 4
>years). I can still run my old stuff and have the new machine too.
                            ^^^^^^^^^
GS/OS?   DOS 3.3?   I don't have much prodos.

>Sounds like a damn good deal to me.

I'll reserve my opinion on the quality of this 'deal' until after I've seen it

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Bowie Bailey         bb0@beach.cis.ufl.edu