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Lawson English (english@primenet.com) wrote:
: 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.

	Doesn't that tell you that Macs are basically an exception not 
the rule of home desktops.

: 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.

	Well, I don't follow the game scene too much.  But from what I've 
gathered the Mac is pretty crummy in the game arena compared to PCs.  For 
1 obvious reason.  PC users are in the majority, hence more programs are 
made for these users.

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

	Don't know about that.  Ultimately, I believe it's a matter of 
opinion.  

: 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.

	I still believe that PPCs will not be mainstream for quite 
awhile. 

: 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.

	Sounds very affordable, there must be a tremendous amounts of 
tradeoffs though.  For $5000+ now you can get a 9500/132.  If Power 
Computing is selling the same processor for half that, in just a couple 
of months, then there must be a compromise somewhere.

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

	It wouldn't be my dream machine, until they get out a large 
amount of software support for it.

: Not bad for business use, either.

	I have to agree with you there.  It's a great work machine.