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Subject: Re: New Macs
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Date: 2 Nov 90 18:07:40 GMT
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On Thu, 1 Nov 90 21:43:51 GMT Collin Broad Douglas said:

>  Not everything.  How about the Video Overlay Card?  Where's the Mac
>  equivalent?

I never thought I'd be defending a Mac to a GS, but VideoLogic makes a Graphic
overlay card that digitizes AND controls a laserDisc player.

>  how about Synthlab or Soundsmith?  The Mac doesn't have the sound
>  capabilities of the GS.

You have a good point here.  I don't know of ANY (not saying they don't exist)
decent music programs for the Mac.  Not even the audio digitizers equal the
GS digitizers.

>  besides, the Mac costs lot more and I'm not willing to spend that much money
>  on a Mac II when better machines based on the same microprocessor are less
>  expensive.  I got my GS at a really great price.  probably at about $1500
>  (or maybe more) less than a comparable system would cost today.

This is my main gripe with the Mac.  Too much $$ for too little performance.
To get a Mac to do everything the an$1850 GS will do (CPU, RGB, ZIP, 3.5", 1Mb)
you'd have to spend at least twice as much, probably even more (I don't have
my mac price sheets with me right now.)

>
>	 Collin Douglas
>
>	 cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu

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