Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!shelby!agate!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: My decision for the LC Message-ID: <9102132324.AA00480@apple.com> Date: 13 Feb 91 22:56:05 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 48 This is in reply to the message from the person that decided to get an LC to replace their GS... I (personally) have nothing against you deciding you needed an LC over a GS, but I'd like to point a couple of things out in reply to some of the things you included in that post: 1. We -don't- all '*like*' macs. I don't dislike macs. I'd rather have a mac than no computer at all, but I'd rather have a GS. If someone offered to swap a mac IIfx for my GS, I'd be happy to ablige. I could sell it and buy 10 GS's :) 2. People aren't mad at the mac. People are mad at Apple management for not supporting the II when there was plenty they could have done. If there wasn't anything they could do to make the GS better, I'd have no problem with them and no problem """upgrading""" (quotes emphasized) to a mac. But knowing That Apple Co. treated me this way when owning a II, how do I know they won't do the same again if I got a mac? Another reason people are mad at apple is because the prices on their products are just rediculous. the price of their LOW DENSITY 3.5" drive is more than some 40meg hard drives, for starters. Since Apple is obviously trying to replace the II with the mac, it makes some people want macs less than they did before, because the more macs that are sold instead of II's, the more Apple is willing to continue with this ludicrous idea. 3. The GS is more upgradable than an LC (in contrast to what you printed). The LC has ONLY ONE slot. The GS has SEVEN slots. Apple has fallen back on the fundamental reasons Steve Jobs & Wozniak created the company for in the first place: To inexpensively computerize the world. Instead, Apple is doing just the opposite; they're charging outrageous prices on their computers (inluding the II's), with the exception of the Classic. Now the Classic is not incredibally overpriced. It's only about twice as much as it should be. I'm not even going to touch on the reasons why many of us like the II more than the mac (it's been said only about a hundred million times on this net). Now, I'm not saying the the LC isn't right for you. Only you can make that decision. But the reason I'm replying is because you claimed the 'anti-apple sentiment is ludicrous' and I want you to understand where it comes from. ---------------------------------------- f Tennes Michael J. Quinn University of Tennessee at Chattanooga BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com