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Subject: Re: Why buy an Amiga?
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Date: 21 Feb 91 15:08:49 GMT
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In article <9279@hub.ucsb.edu>, Parik Rao <6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu> writes:
 
>3] A macintosh is for those of us who hate to look
>at computer moniters and want to get something done
>*FAST*.  You get in, you get out.  Personally, I
>like to spend more time with a project so I don't
>like using macs.
>  
>Anyways, look at what you wanna do.  If you wish to

I'd like to add that Compuserve recently did a study of Mac Users vs PC users
doing word processing and found some interesting results.  I don't remember
all the numbers, but essentially the study found that students using Mac's
for all their word processing generally wrote on an 8th grade level, and had
a large number of grammatical errors.  Comparable students using PC's for the
same tasks wrote on an 11th grade level with less grammatical errors.  The 
people doing the study did confess that the Mac users work was laid out better,
and was more "polished".  

IMHO this says that Mac's are great if all you care about is "flash and glitz".
It sounds like illiteracy is spreading into the computer world also, Not only
do you not have to know anything about a computer to operate one, you don't even
have to be able to read and/or write.  Remember, this is IMHO, based on the
study cited above.  I don't even know how accurate that study was, but it
seems plausible.   I wish they would've included the Amiga in the study.

But I digress.  I explicitly concur with Parik, it depends on what you want to Do!
Spend some time with each machine (at dealers or whatever).  If ease of access to 
materials is important, perhaps a PC is a good choice.  If you wish to explore 
your own creativity perhaps the Amiga is your best choice.  And if you like flashy,
glitzy, no content (oops, IMHO) albeit professional looking reports, perhaps a Mac
is worth the extra cost.  But make sure you buy the machine because it does what
you want it to do!

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Please send flames to alt.rec.alt.rec...., recall I said this is IMHO.