Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!isi.edu!venera.isi.edu!jas From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: The Fate of the Macintosh - Not good Message-ID: <17323@venera.isi.edu> Date: 27 Mar 91 18:36:21 GMT References: <1991Mar22.145326.27445@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> <1991Mar22.150321.1@euler.claremont.edu> <1991Mar23.002503.7160@Solbourne.COM> <8189@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@isi.edu Organization: USC-ISI Lines: 41 In-reply-to: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk's message of 25 Mar 91 14:18:29 GMT In article <8189@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes: >> Given all this I believe the basic fact is this: people who know their way >> around computers aren't about to buy Macs to solve their computing needs. > >Wrong. > >I know my way around computers (Ph.D.) and still love my Mac. > > >-- >Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. > nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick >~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ > "I see what you see: Nurse Bibs on a rubber horse." Ditto. I have a Masters in CS, and I love my Mac. I use windows at work, and find it very shaky with the software we have to use. You have to look for windows software to be sure it'll work, and a lot of times the software you want (or have) to use isn't windows-ready yet. Besides, Windows is not significantly different than the mac in GUI terms, just in details. Someone who scorns the Mac would scorn Windows for the same reasons, I suspect. The main suspicion I have of Next is that there is not much software out there for it. It seems to be a hot machine, and it certainly seems to have the Mac beat for price/performance (in a hrdware sense), but I need to work with my tools, not whatever's available on the Next. Nor do I want to emulate a PC to get some of the software that's on a Mac or PC, but not Next. However, I will grant that Apple pricing is, well, corporately justified, but personally poor-sighted. jas -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey A. Sullivan | Senior Systems Programmer jas@venera.isi.edu | Information Sciences Institute jas@isi.edu | University of Southern California