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Article #1400Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Chris Umbricht
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 22:06
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 22:06
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In article <41aqm8$48t@steel.interlog.com> Dave Glue, daveacg@interlog.com writes: >The point is, the average worker does _not_ add hardware to their >machine, or even software. If a study was based on adding such >hardware and software to a machine, it can hardly accuraretly reflect how "productive" the average worker is under a Windows vs. a Mac environment, as he/she will never deal with such tasks.< Well, somebody does, right? And how much is spent on the people hired to do just that? We have several hundred macs in our department, without any IS staff to maitain them. Tends to make you wonder about the basis for all those cost analyses in favor of the wintel boxes..... And as to the ease of use of W95, I'm sure you will see those claims made by users of W3.1, not macusers.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.jhu.edu!news From: Chris Umbricht <cbum@jhuigf.med.jhu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 21 Aug 1995 22:06:50 GMT Organization: Johns Hopkins University Distribution: world Message-ID: <41b01q$gqf@news.jhu.edu> References: <40oipr$257@sashimi.wwa.com> <rmcassid-2108951317450001@dante.eng.uci.edu> <41aqm8$48t@steel.interlog.com> <41apo1$28s6@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.220.137.143 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Nuntius 2.0.4_68K X-XXDate: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 22:09:17 GMT