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

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From: Tracy Findley
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 04:06
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In article <4d1vs4$em8@emerald.oz.net>, oakley@conti.oz.net wrote:

> > >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.
> 

Still jealous, I see!  :)  Isn't it about time you just gave up and
switched to MacOS?

-- 
Tracy Findley
s868672@umslvma.umsl.edu
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From: s868672@umslvma.umsl.edu (Tracy Findley)
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 04:06:32 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - St. Louis
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