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From: ap@deimos.caltech.edu (Alain Picard)
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Subject: Re: A sad day...
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Date: 12 Mar 91 21:04:41 GMT
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In article <1991Mar12.051514.2655@cs.mcgill.ca>, gumby@cs.mcgill.ca (Phil PRANNO) writes...
> 
>Some more Mac-bashing:
> 
> 
>Most (if not ALL) people who own Macs NOW originally bought it because of
>its ease of use... come on, face it.
> 
> 
>Yeah, yeah, there are more powerful Macs now, but none of them even
>compare to a well-equiped fast 386 or 486. 
> 

Very strange comments.  Why do you say Mac's don't compare to 386 or 486?
It depends what you want to USE it for, doesn't it?

When I want power, I use our CONVEX. (wish I had a Cray)

When I do image processing, or run TeX, I use a SUN.

When I want a to use a nice word processor to make viewgraphs,
I use MS-Word on the Mac. It does EXACTLY what I want. Why is a 386 better?

At home, I own a plain old XT clone, as it was cheap! I use it as
a smart terminal to phone in.

All these computers are satisfactory, i.e. they get the job done.
Mac bashing is just plain silly.  People use it, not because they're
scared of computers (I ASSURE you computers don't scare me :-)

This gross simplification is something that Mac-haters love to promulgate,
"people buy Mac's 'cause you don't need to be smart to use one."
This seems like prejudice, no?  I mean, buying a computer because it's
easy to use IS a smart thing, it seems to me.


						Alain Picard

I don't work for Convex
I don't work for Sun
I don't work for Apple...
etc.