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From: stuart@cmu-cs-h.ARPA (Richard Stuart)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: !!!!???? I GOT A MAC ATTACK ????!!!
Message-ID: <235@cmu-cs-h.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 19:25:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 26 19:25:16 1985
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Now that @i(@u(@b(THE PEOPLE WHO WEAR LITTLE BOW TIES))) at Apple have been
forced to leave or "have been fired up stairs", I MIGHT consider buying a 
Mac.  My prerequisites are something like this:  First, when the ROM changes
are made I want to see a board swap made, not just a switching of the prom
itself.  When the swap is made I want to see a fix to the misengineered
analog board (ala fried and over heated Macs).  Until I see Apple's 
attitude change concerning the over heating problems I will not touch the
machine.  Secondly, if Apple is going to survive the onslaught of the Atari ST
and the Amiga then something should be done about the speed of the Mac;
namely, a coprocessor should be offered to manage the screen.  This should be
offered as a very inexpensive option to existing mac owners (read "at cost")
and then built into all newly manufactured Macs.  (If this is not done I will
not hate Apple for the rest of my life, but will most likely buy an Amigia
instead of a Mac.)  The next change that should be implimented is the Obnoxious
cost of the memory upgrade.  If this does not change soon then I WILL hate
Apple for ever.  Other things such as a better feeling keyboard (optional and
reasonablely priced, but not cheap), and a two or three button mouse (free
upgrade) should be seriously looked at.  I would have mentioned an internal
harddisk and the ability for third party vendors to add hardware to the Mac,
but I have already read in the paper that these will come about soon.

Now I know that all of this seems to be a big bit much but there are several
things to look at.  Consider once again the Amigia and the Atari ST.  Both of
these machines seem to have been designed with some of these better features in
mind.  They are also priced much more reasonablely.  Considering the outrageous
amount of money Apple has been charging for the Mac it would seem to be Good
Style for them to offer these upgrades as suggested.  This would also help the
bad reputation Apple has got for itself over the last several years.  An awful
lot of people that I know feel that they will never again consider buying an
Apple product after seeing the performance of @i(@u(@b(THE PEOPLE WHO WEAR
LITTLE BOW TIES))).

BTW,  one last Really Great Idea would be for Apple to try to get the Woz back.
I realize that this will be practically impossible but it is a pretty spiffy
idea.