Path: utzoo!utdoe!contact!zooid!dve Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOW From: dve@zooid (Sysot) Message-ID: References: Date: Fri, 29 Mar 91 19:26:27 EST Organization: ZOOiD BBS dve@zooid (Sysot) writes: > JEB107@psuvm.psu.edu (Jonathan Baker) writes: > > > Pardon me for asking this, but.... > > > > Is all this Apple <--> IBM bashing really necessary? > > > > I had assumed, for a while, that most of the people who participate in > > these discussions are professional, or semi-professional computer > > literate people. However, from the amount of anit-computer system > > mail out there, I guess I would be mistaken. > > > I agree.. each computer has it's own strength. I don't agree with several > points; one being that the PC applications are more powerful than the Mac > ones, for the most part they are identical in features, especially the day > to day (read: important) applications like word processors and spreadsheets. > However, the Mac is easier to set up, all-around "friendlier", and it has > led in many arenas. > > However, I still prefer the PC to the Macintosh. For one thing, I like the > fact that the PC is an open machine, and that many people have "cloned" it, > yielding better prices and fast-marching technology. Of course it has the > disadvantage of making standards harder to set in the market, but personally > I find it much easier and cheaper to repair a PC than a Mac. It's true that > the Mac is advanced in ways such as the interface and the file system, but > these advantages are mainly due to the fact that Apple was given the chance > to sit back and watch the PC for a while and see what happened to it. The > PC, as far as I have always been told, was never intended to be a > mass-market machine. However, it is now, but because all new systems must be > at least a little backwards-compatible, things move slowly. However, the > Macintosh is losing it's advantage. Used to be you could pick up any Mac and > know any program would work on it. Now you are starting to see cpu, memory, > coprocessor, video, etc requirements. Used to be there were no problems with > expansion because there WAS no expansion. Now you have to worry about which > Mac Bus you are supporting, etc. Now System 7 is due and it will make many > Macintoshes out there obsolete. System 7 is an attempt by Apple to steal > some of the fire that Windows 3 and the promise of OS/2. The Mac operating > system is obviously better in many ways to the PC, but many of the new > features promised for system 7 are already present in Windows 3 and OS/2. > > The most important thing of all, of course, is user satisfaction. The Mac > inspires satisfaction, but the differences between Windows 3 and the Mac > system are fading quickly. As many have noticed Word/Mac and Word/Win, > Excel, Pagemaker, etc are identical on both machines. Of course, the PC > machine is still harder to set up, but many PC suppliers are starting to > ship their machines fully configured with Windows so all you have to do is > unpack it and plug it in.. just like the Mac. There will always be little > problems with the PC running Windows.. because Windows, unfortunately, is a > environment pasted on top of an indecent one, but to the end user these > differences don't really matter in the end. The important thing is that, > from my experience, people usually don't much enjoy using DOS based > programs. They do, however, enjoy using Windows based applications AND Mac > based applications. If, from some of the predictions I have seen, 1/3 of the > PC users switch to Windows, then that is more than the total of Mac systems > out there, and the momentum that is built up by then will keep building up. > Already PC magazines that, in their editorials and columns seem to be > ANTI-Windows are full of nifty new Windows-based programs and hardware that > is made to work best with Windows. > > > ZOOiD BBS - 416/322-7876 ZOOiD BBS - 416/322-7876