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Woodrow Shin (hunter@news.dorsai.org) wrote:
[snipt]
: 	USNF, is an acronymm for U.S. Navy Fighters.  It's a popular 
: flight-sim for the PC.  Sorry about the misunderstanding.  Anyway, the 
: point was Mac Users have a smaller selection to choose from when picking 
: software.  In certain areas they are fairly equal (ex. word processing).  
: In entertainment however they fall short.  Sure you have a selection but 
: it's noticeably smaller.  Walk into any CompUSA and check out the 
: software section.  



That's a matter of market-share for the store. Mac-owners would comprise
about 1/10 of the customers, so only 1/10 of the store's shelf-space
caters to Mac-owners.

The Mac product registry lists over 8,000 Mac-specific products (e.g. Mac
applications and hardware). This doesn't count games where the Mac *is*
behind, but not by as much as you appear to believe.


The word that *I* have gotten is that games programmers now consider the
PowerMacs to be the premier desktop games machines.

Since a $2000 complete 100Mhz 604-based multi-media system should be
available from Power Computing by Christmas (if not by next month), this
perception can only be reinforced. I'd guess that a 132Mhz System would 
cost about $600 more.

Hmmm.. $2600 for a multi-media PowerMac (including monitor and keyboard) 
running on a 133Mhz 604, able to use a large portion of PCI 2.0 video 
cards, etc.



A game-developer/player's dream machine, fer shure.

Not bad for business use, either.

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