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From: ali@navajo.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.micro.mac
Subject: More: Amiga vs the Mac
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Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 15:17:37 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 25 15:17:37 1986
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Reply-To: ali@navajo.ARPA (Ali Ozer)
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Just this morning I was talking to someone, a Mac user. I mentioned
the Amiga, and the person said "oh, what an awful machine." I said,
"really, what don't you like about it?" His reply was "oh the characters
are so big and ugly." I asked him when and for how long he used one,
and his reply was that he saw it recently at a dealer's window...

Come on people, that's not the right approach to something new! "Big and
ugly characters" do not make up the Amiga. You can change fonts, change 
colors, change resolution. In fact, most games and demo programs use lowres
text, just so they can run fine on a normal TV monitor!

Most Amiga users have played with or used Macs sometime in their lives. After
all, the Mac came out much earlier, and is really a great machine! I remember
being very impressed with MacDraw, with the voice synthesis programs, etc.

Most Mac users (and even some dealers) however, talk about the Amiga without
even having laid hands on one. In the last three weeks three people have
have told me that they were interested in buying computers, preferably
some sort of a Mac (Plus or 512K), which they were already familiar with. But,
after I gave them a 2-hour demo of what the Amiga can do, they were totally
convinced that the Amiga is the better machine for their needs. I did not show
them fancy things just to impress them with sounds and color... I showed them
Emacs, I showed them how one useful multitasking is, I showed them a lot of
the public domain software that's out, etc. 

These were all either CS people or people who were interested in programming
the computer they would get. And I believe the Amiga is seriously a better 
choice for anyone who enjoys using their computer as more than just
an appliance.

So, Mac owners, before you rag on the Amiga, go see one in action. And not
one at a dealer's window. Just get a friend to show you what it can do.

Ali Ozer