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From: slimer@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM vs. Mac - Long (was Re: Xerox s
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Date: 20 Dec 89 15:08:00 GMT
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Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!slimer    Dec 20 09:08:00 1989



This thread should not be IBM vs MAC, but more on the line of PC vs MAC.
Get it straight, IBM is NOT the only PC developer. Their are many companies
available for the same treatment that most of you MAC users seem to give
IBM. 

Acknowledging the fact that I have limited use of a MAC, I cannot be
totally sure what they can and cannot do. However, from my small experience
with them I found that for a user they were wonderfully powerful. If you
like mice, even more powerful. But what I like about the PC, which I
bought, is the flexibility and openness to be able to do whatever I want to
do. 

As for not being able to find a comparable PC to a MAC... fine, but I know
many PCs that a MAC could not even come close to comparing with. Both types
of machines have their good and bad. IMHO, the MAC is a user machine, and
the PC is a developers dream. Being a user machine was the MACs whole
idea.

I know that you can develop programs on a MAC, just like on a PC. 
They are equivalent machines in many aspects, yet vastly different in
perception and usage. I believe that the MAC pricing is unjust and
unqualified. Take for example a MACII with a 40M drive compared with an IBM
AT 339 (30M drive) or a Compaq Deskpro 386/16, 40M drive. You want to know
the price differences? 

1) MAC II, 40M	      - $3,750
2) IBM AT 339         - $1,825
3) Compaq 386/16, 40M - $2,500 

There's your difference. These figures are published from PC Week, December
18, 1989, page 13, source The Boston Computer Exchange. The MAC is a profit
hungry machine. Not to say that the MAC is the highest priced machine in
the market (only the IBM Model 80, 70M - $3,800 : Compaq Portable 386, 40M
- $4,100 are higher priced) noted by this chart. 

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