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Article #2699Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Reid Conti
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 03:23
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 03:23
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> >That is why Macintosh has less than 3% of the market share. > Try 14 in North America, and 9 worldwide - and both are growing. > Bzzzt! Try again please. The only number I've seen is 9% -- and its going down, spurred by poor sales during the last two quarters. I had to laugh this morning when I read an item in the newspaper about the mac expo, and how some apple dude high up the corporate ladder delivered a speech about how they have the best computers and are improving all the time. Wrong. First of all, the only thing they're better than pretty much any other interface is userfriendlyness which I'd think the people serious enough to go to a conference wouldn't bother with anyway. They're slow, expensive, can't multitask. On top of that, they work on little toys all the time and have not changed their interface. Now, they have a nice interface, and I can't shun not changing because unix has functionally not changed (although the mac, like unix has had MANY little revisions that any groupie would LOVE to point out). But, the mac, like all GUIs has LOTS of improving to go before its seriously useable. -- Why, yes, it *IS* Linux! oakley@conti.oz.net http://www.oz.net/~conti
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!conti.oz.net!oakley From: oakley@conti.oz.net (Reid Conti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 11 Jan 1996 03:23:48 GMT Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net) Message-ID: <4d1vs4$em8@emerald.oz.net> References: <m.duran-1611950252110001@port19.codetel.net.do><49gkhp$3ag@newsbf02.news.aol. <1996Jan9.122711.44744@ac.dal.ca> Reply-To: oakley@conti.oz.net NNTP-Posting-Host: conti.oz.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.7.6.0)