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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Consumer Reports on Mac
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 14:17:49 EST
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> >...and for people who don't require a decent selection of software, or
> >speed in starting or leaving applications, or color, or a good native
> >development environment, or ...
> 
> Sigh. This group is NOT here to debate the pros and cons of Mac versus IBM.
> The point is, neither machine is perfect. I prefer the Mac. if you
> don't, go play with your intel chip and have fun...
> 
> chuq

*Sigh* yourself; don't be so defensive.  I like the Mac for some things
and I dearly despise the 8088 architecture in the PC.  What I said was
directed at the posting praising the Consumer Reports article as
"balanced" which it was not.  It glossed over the serious limitations
of the Mac and strongly implied that the ONLY reason to get a PC is if
you happen to be brainlessly hooked on the MSDOS user interface.  Anyone
familiar with the relative merits of the machines can see that this is
nonsense.  As you say, neither machine is perfect.

As for the purpose of net.micro.mac, if the subject of advantages and
disadvantages of the Max is inappropriate for the group, why didn't you
object to the original posting, hmm???

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D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-3695
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