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

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From: Lawson English
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 18:56

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Dan Pop (Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch) wrote:
: In <rmcassid-3107951340170001@dante.eng.uci.edu> rmcassid@uci.edu (Robert Cassidy) writes:

: >In article <danpop.807143070@rscernix>, Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
: >
: >> There are lots of Mac's in the shops in Geneva, but (almost) everybody
: >> is ignoring them and buying PC's.  How does this fact fit into your
: >> picture.  I guess Geneva must be a fairly atypical case :-)
: >
: >I guess so. What are the prices of these systems in Geneva - it's not
: >exactly known to be a cheap place for US products.
: > 
: Glad you asked.  The cheapest Mac, a Performa 475 (Trinitron monitor and
: keyboard included) costs SF 1290 (a little bit more than $1000).  There 
: is no PC here that can match this price (the cheapest ones are above
: SF 1500, with a crappy monitor), yet...


I would say that it is incredibly bad advertising on Apple's part taht is 
the cause of this. While it is true that WIndows can finally localize the 
OS, I'm curious as to how well it switches between English, French and 
German on the same system.


Er, the Macs are localized for Swiss French and/or Swiss German, right?

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