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Re: HELP! WHAT SHOULD I BUY?

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From: Jared Miles
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 00:00
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Nathan Hughes wrote:
 
> Thats mail order pricing, right?  It has to be, thats the only way to get
> anything for them.  Nothing like waiting for your software to reach you by
> Oh well, macusers are use to waiting I guess, look at os8 (another
> 12 month wait for an outdated UNIX).

Mail order is great.  PC users are all compulsive shoppers.  I can wait
two-three days for software.  There is never a critical reason for me to
have it ASAP.  Take some Prozac.

> Buying an Apple just doesn't make all that much sense when the whole rest
> of the world is using PC/Windows-based systems.

Give me a break.  And get off our news group loser.  Go hang out with
your chump PC friends who are just getting used to the idea of a GUI and
integrated CD-ROM.

-- 
Jared Miles
Equipment Technician
Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector
Microprocessors and Memories Technolgy Group

(Microsoft patiently waits for Apple to introduce the next exciting
technology into the home computing market so that they can pounce on it,
again)
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From: Jared Miles <miles@strider.sps.mot.com>
Subject: Re: HELP! WHAT SHOULD I BUY?
Date: 1997/02/07
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