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Article #2760Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Mark Eaton
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 19:06
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 19:06
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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. What are you talking about?!?! Apple has had record sales the last 4 quarters in a row. Last quater Apple had a 12% increase over the same period a year before; in that same period PC sales increased 5%. (from December Apple Directions) If you don't know what the hell you are talking about, please, do us a ll a favor and don't start talking out your a**. > 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 okay, lets take these in order: slow: hello? PowerPC 604, heard of it? expensive: you can buy a PPC Mac clone for about $1400. multitasking: since Multifinder and System 6.0, yes, they can. toys: sure - a plug and play RISC machine is a toy. whatever.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!wisdom.connectsoft.net!NewsWatcher!user From: marke@nwlink.com (Mark Eaton) 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: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 11:06:01 -0800 Organization: Myself Message-ID: <marke-1101961106010001@204.236.25.93> 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: 204.236.25.93 X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.0b30