Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:46015 comp.sys.ibm.pc:40225 comp.sys.mac:44585 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!reed!d75!sabre!robin From: robin@sabre.uucp (Robin D. Wilson/1000000) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!! Message-ID: <2878@d75.UUCP> Date: 18 Dec 89 21:15:06 GMT References: <6767@tank.uchicago.edu> <1989Dec17.112127.27333@me.toronto.edu> <14960@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <1989Dec17.223025.6618@me.toronto.edu> <1989Dec18.040441.30118@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <33269@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: news@d75.UUCP Reply-To: robin@reed.UUCP (Robin D. Wilson/1000000) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Organization: IBM AWD, Austin, TX Lines: 74 In article <33269@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> kipnis@janus.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Gary Kipnis) writes: >In article <1989Dec18.040441.30118@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> rob@uokmax.UUCP (Robert K Shull) writes: >>In article <1989Dec17.223025.6618@me.toronto.edu> yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap) writes: >>> ...people who owned Macs (because they couldn't figure out how to >>> use any other computer) weren't allowed on USENET :-). Yes. >> >> ...people checked their facts first. Yes. >> By the way, just for the record, people don't always use Macs because >> they "couldn't figure out how to use any other". Some of us feel >> that the Mac lets us get more done in the same amount of time. >> And time is valuable to me. > >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 There are NO single commands that work faster on a Mac, (or AMIGA since this keeps showing up in comp.sys.amiga), but then if the computer is only used to copy one file to another, what good is it. But,.. The Mac is undoubtably faster on certain useful functions. Like: You can learn any program faster with the Mac/Amiga than on the PeeCee. This is because you have a consistant user interface on the mac/amiga. On the PeeCee every program thinks it knows the best way to do something, and all of the rest are just backwards and unfriendly. Consequently the user must read the entire manual on every piece of software he buys to learn how to use the program -- ie. the learning curve for a new piece of software is much steeper. For example, when I first worked at Lockheed (in 1987) the R&D Division (where I worked) bought PeeCees 5-to-1 over Macs. After several secretaries of the Directors got Macs, the number quickly shifted in favor of the Macs. The reason?? The people who owned Macs could learn how to put out a paper and connect to the Vax, and manage their files, and whip up a budget, etc. in half the time of the PeeCee users. My department was responsible for PeeCee and Mac support, the lady that did this job was asked during a staff meeting by our manager, "Why, if we have an equal number of Macs and PeeCees; does your weekly status report never contain more than a few lines about what you did to help the Mac users, while the remainder of your report fills volumes on what you did to help PC users? Are you just not familiar with the Mac, or are you shorting the Mac users in any way?" She responded, "No it's nothing like that. It's just that the Mac users only ask for help setting their machines up -- you know; plugging it in. Once they get past that, they figure the rest out in a few hours, and it is the same for every program they buy. On the other hand, the PC users need me to help them everytime they buy some new software, because they have to re-learn everything all over again." You can print out a "HIGH-QUALITY" document faster on Mac. Desktop Publishing is far and away superior on the Mac to anything offered on the PeeCee. It is more powerful, faster, better looking, more flexible, and easier to use than anything the PeeCee could probably EVER offer. In the same amount of time, an experienced user on a Mac vs an equally experienced user on a PeeCee would turn out a document an order of magnitude superior to the PeeCee user's document. You can diskcopy faster. It may sound simple, but it is invariabley true. It is far faster to grab a disk with the mouse, and move it over to the disk that you want it to copy onto; than it is to type diskcopy a: b: (or whatever). This; of course, assumes an equal amount of bytes being copied. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |The views expressed herein, are the sole responsibility of the typist at hand| +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |USNail: UUCP: | |2323 Wells Branch Pkwy., #G107 cs.utexas.edu!romp!ibmchs!auschs\ | |Austin, TX 78728 !sabre.austin.ibm.com!robin | |Home: (512)251-6889 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<-MUST BE INCLUDED| +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+