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Re: Computer Purchase

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From: Gill, Kathy
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 00:00
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> From:         Miraz Jordan[SMTP:miraz@FIRSTBITE.CO.NZ]
>
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> 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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Date: 1999/01/27
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