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In article <72179@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>Odisseas Kosmatos lists lots of "reasons" why PCs are the
>Scum of the Earth..
> 
>Sure.. but can your Falcon do *anything*...?
> 
>Without software, you've got a high-tech (and expensive)
>paperweight..
> 
>Meanwhile, that poor, misguided PC owner is happily computing
>using his lousy, clunky, "everyone knows" has problems PC to
>do exactly what he wants it to do.
> 
>He had to pay $89 more to get 11 voice FM synthesis music, with
>VOC sampled voice support.. so what..?  It works.. NOW..
> 
>He had to pay $19 more to get a mouse..  so what..?  It works..
>NOW...

I understand your narrow-minded point of view, and cannot flat out say
it is a load of rubbish, but let's not get off the original topic, which
was that the Falcon has nothing going for it. I've shown at least twice
my reasons for why I think so, and we've seen your opposite reasoning too.

The original point was that the $799 PC was not much of a performer,
and that you would have to spend more money to get it to do
anything, whenever the need arose.

>He's got an IDE drive.. so what?  That's what the Falcon has too!
> 
>The point that seems to be universally missed here is that if
>someone decides that they want to use a computer *NOW*, instead
>of waiting for the ever present Atari "RSN", they CAN do it..
> 
>If someone decides they want to get some actual work done NOW
>instead of waiting continually for the NEXT broken promise,
>why shouldn't they..?
> 
>Why wait forever for the "ultimate" pie in the sky dream, when
>you can get a REAL computer NOW..?
>
>(OK, maybe some of us can afford to wait forever for Atari to get
>their act together.. maybe someday they'll actually come up with
>a killer machine that *everybody* just HAS to HAVE...  but until
>then, why spite yourself just to make Atari feel good...????)
> 
>BobR


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