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

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From: William Q. Broadhead
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 23:53
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> 
>>P5-75 or PMac 5200, fine, but it needs to be comparable. To reduce the
>>argument to 'Well, if a 386 is enough for you, then PC's are cheaper',
>>then I'll reduce the argument to 'Well, if a Mac Plus is enough for you
>>than Macs are cheaper' since you can usually take a Mac Plus off of
>>someones hands for free.
> 
> To match your argument, I'll point out that you can get an XT or old AT
> for exactly the same price (hard disk included).
> 
> Dan
> --
> Dan Pop
> CERN, CN Division
> Email: Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch 
> Mail:  CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
-- 
But can you get the AT or XT to run a version of windows comparable to the
macplus? :-) =:-) <:-)
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From: sl02z@cc.usu.edu (William Q. Broadhead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Message-ID: <1995Aug17.175330.59200@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 17 Aug 95 17:53:30 MDT
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