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Re: HELP! WHAT SHOULD I BUY?

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From: Halfy
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 00:00
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In article <330FD762.642E@bitstream.net>, mwright@bitstream.net wrote:

> Nathan Hughes wrote:
> > 
> > --
> > Buying an Apple just doesn't make all that much sense when the whole rest
> > of the world is using PC/Windows-based systems.
> 
> Well, the majority of people in the world are poor, overbreeding and not
> using contraception, but that doesn't mean that an intelligent minority
> shouldn't try something better if they have the opportunity.
> 
> Macs are simply better, and they are networkable and compatible with the
> Windows boxes when such a thing is neccesary.
> 
> Look at what's best individually, not collectively. Ever watch Star
> Trek? The Borg all follow a collective agenda. Maybe they use Windows?
> 
> I'll stick with the Mac, and the hell with "the whole rest of the
> world."
> 
> By the way, the Mac has a 60% marketshare in the internet development
> arena, and an 80% marketshare in the graphics/publishing community. Time
> magazine is pretty much entirely produced on Macs, and that is their
> main platform. If you are an accountant, fine -- use Windows. If you
> work in the creative or publishing/communications field, you're a fool
> to not us a Mac.

Buy a Macintosh and fall in love, a love which will last forever.  

If you dont think it's a good idea Borrow a Pc, and see how quick you give
it back, and then go out and buy yourself a Mac.
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From: david.hunt@camp_and_caravan.co.uk (Halfy)
Subject: Re: HELP! WHAT SHOULD I BUY?
Date: 1997/02/24
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