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From: mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu (Don McGregor)
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Subject: Re: Open Letter to an MS-DOS User
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Date: 27 Mar 91 09:10:29 GMT
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betsey@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth Fike) writes:
>Amen to that, Adam!  I've been fighting with my MacFriends about
>this for a long time...but you forgot to mention beautiful
>*full-color* graphics for a mere *fraction* of the
>MacPrice....:-)
>
  It appears that Apple hasn't been advertising their new machines
  enough.  The PC-bigots still have some misconceptions about Mac
  prices.

  A Mac LC can be had for $2,000.  That includes a _color_ monitor
  that has onboard video support for 256 colors, 2 MB RAM, and a
  40 MB SCSI HD along with the keyboard.  Its rough analog in the
  PC world would be a 16 MhZ 386SX.  A Dell 316SX (to take a fairly
  reputable clone maker as an example) has 40 MB, VGA Color Plus 
  (16 colors at full 640 x 480 resolution) and 2 MB of RAM, all
  for $2,099 (March 4 PC week prices).

  You can save a couple hundred bucks by buying from Joe Blow's
  computers 'n' stuff if you feel lucky.

  The Mac come bundled with the System software, a mouse, and
  HyperCard (add $150 for PC-equivilent).  It has a built-in 
  SCSI port.  A complete computer-phobe can unbox it and get
  it running in under two hours.  It has simple built-in 
  networking that can connect small groups and share printers
  and files for under $30 per station.  The Mac software base
  is larger than the Windows software base.

  Is this mere *fraction* of a PC price greater than one or
  less than one? :-)

  For all their "Windows-is-just-as-good-as-Mac" rhetoric, the 
  PC folks are still being dragged kicking and screaming into
  the GUI world. They grump about using it, call into doubt
  the manhood/womanhood of anyone who does, and generally long
  for the good 'ol days when they could explain to a befuddled
  user the difference between COPY and XCOPY--don't forget, you
  need the /S switch for XCOPY to work on subdirectores.
  
Don McGregor             |"You can fall for chains of silver/You can fall for 
mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu| chains of gold/You can fall for pretty strangers/
			 | And the promises they hold..."