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From: ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com (Eric Mcgillicuddy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Mac Lc vs IIgs A+
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Date: 3 Feb 91 16:18:14 GMT
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>The final result is still that in a feature for feature comparison, the Mac
LC
>wins simply because it has Macintosh compatibility along wit optional IIe
>compatibility.  After all, think about it - all schools (!) need is IIe
>compatibility, and everything esle you can do on the GS can be done on the LC
>as well with Mac software.

You have made a basic premise that Macintosh is better than GS software and
thus more of an advantage than GS compatibility. I do not believe this to be
so. 90% of the software that I use is as good as any available on the Mac, and
all of the games are better, Simcity and Falcon being the only exceptions. I
am not sayin that the GS makes a better business computer than a Mac, or
better scientific (althoug hthat is true in some cases), but it does make a
better home computer that the family can enjoy using and a better educational
computer for school kids. 

At the same price as a LC, the GS is the better value. As an added advantage,
accelerating the GS accelerates the IIe, this is not true on the LC. Also
increasing the amount GS memory increases the IIe memory, on the LC this is
not linear, a 2Meg LC does not have a 2Meg IIe (expanded Appleworks desktop or
large RAMdisk of course). 

Bullfrog should have added $79 for microphone input and HyperStudio. This
gives the HyperCard-like interface and voice input. 

BTW, the LC does not have 15-bit colour, 8-bit colour is as good as it gets
(unless there is a hidden video mode that I do know about), I understand that
this was a last minute addition as well, they were only going to go with 4-bit
colour on the 13" screen.

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