Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!appserv!sun!amdcad!brahms!phil From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS Message-ID: <1991Mar21.024213.9550@amd.com> Date: 21 Mar 91 02:42:13 GMT References: <1991Mar16.021936.21633@amd.com> <16918@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 53 In article <16918@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes: |As to "overwhelming advantages": unfortunately, this uniformity across |applications is very hard for DOS users to see, and even harder for |them to understand the importance of, but for me it's crucial. I use I don't buy this at all, unless you're talking about the DOS straw man. If you are trying to make a useful comparison of Mac vs Windows, I find the Win apps I've seen to be quite consistent in terms of there being a file menu, edit menu, clipboard, etc. Beyond that kind of stuff, I don't really see that Macdraw has anything at all in common with Adobe Illustrator. AI doesn't even have a grid for god's sake. There's not much standardization for exchanging drawings either. Macdraw doesn't even read PICT and loses information when you write PICT. |had an IBM I would probably learn to use ONE word processor and ONE |drawing program, thus severly limiting what I could do with the And what do you use on the Mac? |The range of programs doesn't, because the thought |of having to read all those manuals is too daunting. And I certainly There's some truth to that, but to a hardware engineer like myself, if I wanted to use a transmission line analyzer badly enough to read the manual, I could run something on the PC. Not on the Mac that I'm aware. Actually the manual isn't that bad, and this comparison is beside the thing I'm interested in which is Windows v Mac. |don't want to have to figure out how to configure one of the things; I This is one real advantage of the Mac. But there's nothing that would prevent a company from selling preconfigured PCs. With Mac, you only have one source. If you are willing to accept that, you can do the same thing with PCs. |once learned how to format disks (though I've forgotten the details Windows makes this easy now. || When I was young, my family bought a color TV. Our neigbors, who | || were poorer, had only a black-and-white set. They bought a piece of | || cellophane, red on top, yellow in the middle, and blue on the bottom, | || and taped it over their screen, so they could claim that they had a | || color TV, too. | || Now there's Windows 3.0. | Can you say straw man? -- Help! I just got a Macintosh. Anyone got a magnifying glass?