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From: dave@hpdstma.HP.COM (Dave Waller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Give me a good reason to buy a Mac.
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Date: 4 Apr 88 15:33:29 GMT
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Hmmm..... My point of view:


I bought an SE in December, and have been IMMENSELY happy with it. It is,
at times, a little slow in processing FP numbers (i.e. Mandelbrot plots, etc.)
but overall I have been quite impressed with the speed of the windowing
environment, graphics interface, etc, etc, etc.


Anyway, having a personal grudge against accelerators is a bad idea. As someone
else mentioned, it is generally a GOOD idea to develop on the same or similar
machine to which you intend the S/W to ultimately run on, and with many
accelerators you can disable the high power CPU and run the original CPU for
compatability reasons. This to me seems to be a marraige of the best of both
worlds: you can get premium compile speed with the accelerator, and then chech
your application on the original CPU to see if it is up to snuff, all with
one system. Sounds good to me...

In addition, several accelerators DO NOT use up the expansion slot space, so
you can throw away that argument.


Dave Waller