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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac pricing and the future of the Mac
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Date: 27 Mar 89 23:46:16 GMT
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In article <11376@ut-emx.UUCP> mentat@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Dorsett) writes:
>And with this, Mr. Bilkatt starts off on a totally irrelevant comparison of
>the IBM PC to the Macintosh.  My comment was merely meant to point out that
>from a "real user's" viewpoint, the PC did--and does--offer business solutions
>that work.  It is a continuing strong point, particularly when one considers
>that the underlying platform for that software is usually several thousand
>dollars cheaper.

They work only if you don't want to do anything differently than you
did in 1985 or 1986.  But many business now want to run things like
PageMaker, Windows, Illustrator, Excel -- things that were either
available on the Macintosh years ago or were part of it's system
software from the beginning -- and find that they simply can't, because
either the software is just now becoming available or because it makes
too many demands on their hardware.

Which means that all of a sudden that bargain hardware isn't really such
a bargain any more.

And all those old Pluses still run all that software (and all the new
stuff too).  Glad I still have my old, overpriced Plus...

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