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Article #101Re: ibm-compadible vs the Mac
From: Georg Schwarz
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 00:00
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<new_user@email.msn.com> wrote: > macs have a horrible internet connection rate, most 33.6 KBPS modems are $60 fact 1: my Mac at work does ftp transfers at 1 MByte/s rates, only limited by the local ethernet fact 2: 33.6 kbps modems connected to a Mac are just the same ones as used on a PC, an SGI, a Sun, an Amiga, a C64 (if that's possible), so they are the same price. > more for a mac. Third, NO SOFTWARE/HARDWARE. Fourth, horrible user uh? really?:-) What kind of software and hardware are you missing? > interface, completely uncustomizable. Fifth, the Apple Corp. comes out with > a fancy little upgrade quite often, which contains no updates, and just hmm, if that really were the case, why should Mac users not just ignore it? Fact is, lots of upgrades from Apple are free. > costs more. Sixth, APPLE IS GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. Seventh, completely sure. They're going of of business for over 20 years now. > overpriced, it has to be because they pulled the clones off the market. > etc............. oh that old myth. Not again. summary: what else should one expect from someone on MSN who does not even manage to configure his newsreader? -- Georg Schwarz schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de, kuroi@cs.tu-berlin.de Institut f�r Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254, FAX -21130 Technische Universit�t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10cbb9,556159a7771f64ee X-Google-Attributes: gid10cbb9,public X-Google-Thread: fe136,5d4989e3fdcbe3b8 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe136,public X-Google-Thread: fe071,556159a7771f64ee X-Google-Attributes: gidfe071,public X-Google-Thread: 10b5e3,556159a7771f64ee X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5e3,public X-Google-Thread: 10f675,5d4989e3fdcbe3b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f675,public X-Google-Thread: 112bfb,e20349f10e482d38 X-Google-Attributes: gid112bfb,public X-Google-Thread: 111f91,5d4989e3fdcbe3b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid111f91,public X-Google-Thread: 112e6a,5d4989e3fdcbe3b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid112e6a,public From: schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz) Subject: Re: ibm-compadible vs the Mac Date: 1997/09/23 Message-ID: <19970923222614665720N@marconi.physik.tu-berlin.de> X-Deja-AN: 274948642 References: <_q_-2009971558080001@yak-ts2-p15.wolfenet.com> <3424665D.9E452710@utoronto.ca> <O4wwbU7x8GA.49@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net> Organization: Institut f. Theoretische Physik, TU Berlin Newsgroups: alt.sources.mac,alt.sys.mac.newuser-help,uw.mfcf.hardware.mac,aus.computers.mac,comp.emulators.mac.executor,aus.mac,bcs.sig.mac,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,francom.comp.macintosh