Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!hubcap!ncrcae!oiscola!dbarnhar From: dbarnhar@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Apple sabotage??? Message-ID: <344@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM> Date: 8 Feb 91 15:28:05 GMT References: <1991Feb7.025319.26286@psych.toronto.edu> <.?bGu2dh@cs.psu.edu> <1991Feb7.233305.28984@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: dbarnhar@oiscola.UUCP (David C. Barnhart II) Organization: NCR/OISD Columbia Lines: 72 In article <1991Feb7.233305.28984@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Dire Wolf) writes: >melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > > >>In article <1991Feb7.025319.26286@psych.toronto.edu> michael@psych.uucp (Michael Gemar) writes: > >> "The less you know about home computers >> the more you'll want the new IBM PS/1." > >>Apple usually doesn't resort to such tactics. However, I do believe >>the statement is true. >*---- > >I do too. But I think it's especially funny to see the Mac fans knock >the machine that has all the "features" that prompted owners of the >"toaster" macs to buy their machines in the first place. It's >complete, self-contained, non-expandable, and designed for people >who don't know which way to turn the light bulb when they change it. >In other words, it's aimed at the Macintosh market. Except that it >doesn't have a 9" screen. Why should that be so funny? What prompted us to "buy [our] machines in the first place" was that fact that the Macintosh was a totally different way of doing computing than we were used to. We didn't particularly think that non-expandability was an advantage, but that was the way the Mac came, so we took it that way. Of course it was underpowered for what it attempted to do, but that has changed. 7 years later, times are different. Mac users do not have to accept non-expandability as a fact of life. However, one of the advantages of the IBM PCs and clones all along was their expandability. Take that away, and it seems a ridiculous proposition to buy one (except, perhaps, for portables, and the PS/1 does not really address that market). Sure, PCs still have their advantages, but I think that the market for a non-expandable PC will be severly limited at best, especially when expandable clones are CHEAP. Without the Mac interface, no PC really addresses users who can't change light bulbs -- even Windows 3.0 isn't as intuitive. Dave Barnhart NCR Cooperative Computing Systems Division 3245 Platt Springs Rd. West Columbia, SC 29169 email: uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!oiscola!dbarnhar -- Dave Barnhart NCR Cooperative Computing Systems Division 3245 Platt Springs Rd. West Columbia, SC 29169 email: uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!oiscola!dbarnhar