Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!expert.cc.purdue.edu!blissmer From: blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Kevin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: The Fate of the Macintosh Message-ID: <8591@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 23 Mar 91 18:07:46 GMT Article-I.D.: mentor.8591 References: <1991Mar22.154811.8691@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> <1991Mar23.055725.27761@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Mar23.064856.4877@cs.ucla.edu> <91082.084305STREATER@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Reply-To: blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Kevin) Organization: Purdue University Lines: 26 In article <91082.084305STREATER@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> STREATER@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (415) writes: [stuff deleted] >abstraction will finally be the same. I don't know enough about, and haven't >seen enough of Windows to be dogmatic about this, but I have a friend who >recently spend three grand on a 33Mhz 386 system (commercial prices) which is >rather more powerful, probably, than the IIsi I just bought at an educational >price of three grand (with 13" Sony). He shares my jaundiced view of Depends on how you define power. Pagemaker runs faster on the SI at work than the 33mhz 386 at school. Noticeable faster. Ditto for excel and word win. [deleted to save bandwidth} >The other thing to beware of is becoming emotionally attached to a certain >machine. Its a hard lesson to learn, but one risks being backed into a corner >as it becomes harder and harder to defend a certain position. So take heed, >all you partisans! (And this from a Mac partisan!). It will not surprise me at >all if in say 3 years I am junking my IIsi, and buying a 586 clone with 32 >mbytes, a gig of disk, all for $2k. And if Apple is s amaller company that >today. > The one to watch is probably NewTek. Imagine the possibility of using their code to run Mac software on a NeXT 040. 5k for a b/w NextStation or 8k for a NextStation Color (both of these rip an FX in half). That or any number of the coming Mac Clone vendors. The chip set will probably cost $300. Add an 040 for another $1000 and you have a killer mac for under 3k.