Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Anthony D. Tribelli
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 19:21

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Joe Ragosta (docjoe@interramp.com) wrote:
: Fine. Have your toys. 99.9% of the people who buy computers are not
: interested in your 386 machines built from used parts.

And what kind of argument was that? Would you agree that Macs are 
irrelevant since 90% of the people who buy computers are not interested 
in Macs? This is foolish logic.

My real point is with respect to the term "toy". Elsewhere I referred to
building a system yourself as a good educational experience or hobby. 
Your "toy" reference brings one more motivation to mind. I can probably
build a higher performance system than any preconfigured model PC. I have
complete flexibility over parts. I can choose the best motherboard, the
best video, the best SCSI controller, the best SCSI drives, the fastest
RAM, etc... The choices are usually more limitted with a preconfigured
model. 

I will concede that large vendors may have a particular part first. 
Gateway, Dell, and Micron were offereing Pentium-133 systems for about 
5-6 weeks before I saw Pentium-133 chips at a local computer swap meet. 
Similar story for EDO RAM and pipelined-burst cache.

Tony
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Tony Tribelli
adtribelli@acm.org

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