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In article <4c7lvo$qv8@bandit.cyberwar.com>,
zool@outland.cyberwar.com (Joshua Galun) wrote:
>John E. Castasus (jcast144@inlink.com) wrote:
>: > I work in a real computer store and 
>: > not some damn department store that happens to sell computers.  I sell real 
>: > Apple PowerMacs (not Performas but real PowerMacs) and real computers and not 
>: > some damn Packard Bell or Gateway clone.
>
>: Whoa, don't knock my Performa 6116! It's a repackaged 6100/60 (the
>: ORIGINAL Power Mac) with a modem, a monitor and a bunch of software that I
>: trashed immediately. It's a pretty good deal, except for having only one
>: expansion slot.
>
>	When he said real computers he was not implying that the Mac was 
>not a real computer, simply that the PCs he used were set up properly and 
>were designed well, as opposed to the ones you see in department stores.
>

Absolutely. My niece got a 486-80 for her confirmation with sound card,
CD ROM, SVGA card and WFWG preloaded. When her father set it up, it ran
VGA instead of SVGA, cause the right drivers weren't installed. No one at
the store had bothered to point this out, so they were looking at an
*extremely* crappy Windows interface instead of just a crappy one. When
I installed 800*600 256, they all went "Wow".

The point is not that the video drivers weren't installed, it's that
they weren't informed of it.

The video drivers on my WARP preload weren't installed either. But I was
*told*, and the salesman showed me where in the manual to look, and gave
pe a printout of the README file, and told me to call if I had problems,
and they'd walk me through it. As a matter of fact, I asked him if they
could partition the HD with a 200 MB c: and the rest HPFS, and install
OS/2 on the HPFS partition. No sweat, come back in a couple of hours. I
did, and this machines been humming ever since.

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