Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!mts.rpi.edu!Garance_Drosehn From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!! Message-ID: Date: 6 Nov 90 06:43:02 GMT Distribution: usa Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Lines: 30 References:<1990Nov5.191813.20961@news.clarkson.edu> <11133@goofy.Apple.COM> <505@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> In article <505@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> mldemsey@cs.arizona.edu (Matthew L. Demsey) writes: > In article <11133@goofy.Apple.COM>, lsr@Apple.com (Larry Rosenstein) writes: > > > > And Apple had orders for 125,000 of the new low-cost Macs. > > Yes, but that can safely be attributed to years of ill informed > and misled consumers who were hiding in the PC market coming over to > Mac now that its safe. It in no way implies that those orders are > based on 125,000 well-researched opinions... although i am unsure of > what the original response to the Mac 512s was... loki Just because you wish to attribute it to that does not mean it is true. All the PC-owners I know are too busy chanting "Windows is just like the Mac, Windows is just like the Mac, Windows is just like the Mac" to buy a Mac Classic. The people I know who *are* buying Mac Classics are people who have wanted a Mac for awhile, but couldn't justify spending $2,000 to get in the Macintosh door. They have researched what *they* want and what *they* need, and decided on the Mac. Just because their wants and needs do not match your wants and needs does not mean that their wants and needs are not "well researched". It only means that they aren't you, or they aren't doing the things that you are. It isn't any "safer" in the Mac world today than it was on October 1st, it's just less expensive to get there. Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY. USA