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From: clye@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Christopher Lye)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Message-ID: <12284@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 18 Dec 89 13:46:01 GMT
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In article <33269@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> kipnis@janus.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Gary Kipnis) writes:
>Please give a single example of what you can do faster on a mac than on a pc.
>Do you call if faster clicking on the 'disk eject' icon and waiting forever
>for the machine to eject your floppy.  Do you call if faster clicking
>the mouse ten times just to get from one directory to another.  There 
>probably ISN'T a single command that you can perform faster with a mac than
>pc.
>
>gary

While you mention disk handling procedures you did say give a single
example. I'll give you a few.

Time is a commodity to many Mac Users and not just in terms of computer
clockspeed. Learning time is much reduced when faced with Mac
applications. Believe me I've worked "both sides of the fence," and know
whereof I speak.

Particularly germane is Desktop Publishing. I have used Ventura on the
PC and Pagemaker on the Mac. Granted Ventura (by Xerox) is very
powerful, but SLOWWWWW. I was handling a 65 pg document and had to wait
ages for the PC to process any graphics I had incorporated.

On the Mac handling graphics and text is a breeze and NO WAY can you
tell me that the IBM PC can do a better job.

Lets not even mention postscript on an IBM PC.

Also if you were clued enough to realize, most of the power programs in
the Mac environment have command key sets for all you people who love
to memorize these things rather than get on with the actual act of
creating.

I love this great overarching generalizations that just set people up
sometimes. Didn't someone from the "IBM Camp" mentioning "balls on the
table." :-)

Besides, in my book its not the one who does it faster, its the computer
that does it better. For me this is clearly the Macintosh.
Some of my best friends are PC users, really. :-)

Chris