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From: mitroo@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo)
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Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 10 Mar 91 18:24:32 GMT
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In article <27373@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> AVATAR%oak.decnet@pine.circa.ufl.edu writes:
>I shouldn't begin on this thread, and I will not say much. I am about to do
>a little unbacked up Mac bashing.
>
>All these people who talk about the benefits of a Mac. Sure, it's cute, but
>there is no real difference, IMHO, between the Mac 'OS' and Workbench. The
>Mac's looks a little better, but it can sometimes be a pain to use, just
>because of low responsiveness sometimes.

Okay, I'd like to see any mac lover justify this:  Last year, I was working
on an important paper on a mac.  I was using WordPerfect, I think.  Anyway,
I loaded in my paper off the disk, and gave the disk to a friend who had some
of her things on it.  No problem, I thought - I'll just save the updated file
onto another disk or on the hard drive.  Wrong!!  When I tried saving the file,
a requester came up asking for "such and such disk" to be replaced in the
drive!?!  Why?  I wanted to save the file on another disk.  No problem, I
thought, I'll just click the "cancel" box.  Wait a minute... There is no
cancel box!  The machine was completely dead until I replaced THAT SAME DISK
into the drive.  I had to go running around campus trying to find my friend
with that disk just so I could stick it into that stupid drive for that
precious second until it changed disks.

I don't know.  To me this is not what computing is all about.  Trying to put
the cursor over a word with the mouse on a puny flickering black & white 9"
screen is not my idea of advanced word processing.  When I tried printing the
file, I had to WAIT 20 MINUTES for the printout.  The proctor working there
told me this is normal, AppleTalk is just slow.  Remember:  "Only a Macintosh
gives you so much power to do so many things so quickly and so easily."

					Varun Mitroo
					mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu

PS - When was the last time Apple actually came out with anything innovative
rather than a rehash of old technology?  What other company is bringing a new
product with a 68000 in it for $1000?