HELP! WHAT SHOULD I BUY?

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From: Ronald E Engel
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 00:00

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Howdy.

I�m trying to determine which Mac machine will best serve my needs and
have gotten all sorts of contradictory ideas from the dealers around here,
so...

The applications I am most interested in running (that don�t work so well
or at all on my LC-II):
Pagemaker            Photoshop   Freehand
Netscape Gold        Quark       Pagemill

Ny primary uses for this machine will be desktop publishing and graphic
design, including web page design (for my work) and surfing the net.

The two dealers I talked to recommended:
Performa 6400 and the PowerMac 7500/100 
(I�m perfectly willing to buy a machine other than these two, but these
were the two that were suggested.)

At CompUSA, the worker swore to me that the PowerMac 7500/100 was much
better (worth the extra $500) than the Performa 6400 even though on paper
it looked worse. A bystander then walked by and said that that was
completely wrong, that the 6400 would be better.

I would be grateful for any suggestions. 
E-mail rengel@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu.

Thanks,
Ron

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From: rengel@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (Ronald E Engel)
Subject: HELP! WHAT SHOULD I BUY?
Date: 1997/02/05
Message-ID: <rengel-0402972213340001@dialup132.tcs.tulane.edu>
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