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

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From: van phan
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 04:47
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comrade@umich.edu (Robert A. Decker) wrote:

>In article <4c6rn9$kuq@sloth.swcp.com>, pgranone@swcp.com (Paul Granone) wrote:

>> Yeah right,
>> 
>> That is why Macintosh has less than 3% of the market share.
>> 
>> 
>  Wow, another brain-dead lemming! Mac sells between 7 and 13% of all
>computers (they are usually around 9%) and are around 35% of all used
>computers. The reason that they sell 10% of computers, but are 35% of all
>used computers is because they last so damn long! 
>  In the Department of Radiology at Michigan we have literally dozens of
>Mac SE's and classics still in use all over the damn place. They don't
>die! We can't get rid of them! We keep them in public places (film reading
>rooms and libraries) for doctors/residents/techs to check their email and
>sign patient reports.
>  This compares to the two (yes, only two) 286's that we can still get to work.


>rob


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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 04:47:05 GMT
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