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Article #162Re: Computer Purchase
From: Gill, Kathy
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 00:00
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> From: Miraz Jordan[SMTP:miraz@FIRSTBITE.CO.NZ] > > > At 00:21 -0500 20/01/99, David Hoyte wrote: > > PS: The Mac/PC decision depends on your applications: Mac does most > > high school work, but NOT business/technical applications: > > few of these programs are written to run on Mac. > > I have absolutely no desire to start a platform war here, but a > factual error does need to be corrected. > > The Mac does run a huge range of office software, including (and > definitely not limited to) such standard applications as MS Office > (Word and Excel etc), Filemaker Pro (databases), Pagemaker, > Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, Freehand. > Many of them (Word98, all Adobe products) run faster on the Mac. In addition, you can run Windows software on your Mac, either thru emulation or thru a "hard card" (putting the intel chip in your machine). You can also run a version of UNIX, call MacLinux. And the iMac *is* the number 1 selling computer for 4th quarter 1998. With 40+% of purchases from first time Mac users (first time computer buyers and Wintel converts). Kathy
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10449f,941a8bbec9cf4e41,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10449f,public From: "Gill, Kathy" <Kathy.Gill@PSS.BOEING.COM> Subject: Re: Computer Purchase Date: 1999/01/27 Message-ID: <016B2EBE48ADD011BEFC00805FFE7524027BD863@xch-rtn-12.ca.boeing.com> X-Deja-AN: 437872593 Sender: Internet/BITNET Network Trainers <NETTRAIN@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU> Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU * Comments: cc: Miraz Jordan <miraz@FIRSTBITE.CO.NZ> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: "Gill, Kathy" <Kathy.Gill@PSS.BOEING.COM> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.nettrain