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Article #2701Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Tracy Findley
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 04:06
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!umslts1_5.umsl.edu!user 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 Message-ID: <s868672-1001962208460001@umslts1_5.umsl.edu> References: <m.duran-1611950252110001@port19.codetel.net.do><49gkhp$3ag@newsbf02.news.aol. <1996Jan9.122711.44744@ac.dal.ca> <4d1vs4$em8@emerald.oz.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: umslts1_5.umsl.edu X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.1.5