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Article #2879Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Martin Nisshagen
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 03:32
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 03:32
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Anthony D. Tribelli wrote: > Apple, IMHO, is really a software company that incidentally makes hardware > in order to sell the software. It was not always this way, but it is now. I see it the rather opposite way. Apples big income is from selling Mac's and not it's Claris division (the software company). And in most computers the hardware is much more expensive than the OS. The company who sells most software for the Mac is not Apple. It's in fact Microsoft. > The Macintosh stands out because of its software, not its hardware. I can I don't agree. In my opinion they make decent hardware but not system software. > buy a PPC604 based Mac running MacOS or PPC604 based Prep system running > WinNT (actually I can buy a dual PPC604 running WinNT). Apple's hardware > does not standout, other's have equivalent or superior technology. I think NT on Apple hardware is a much better computer than MacOS on IBM hardware. -- Martin Nisshagen MTS Technology, Sweden martin@mts.se (MIME 1.0)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!mn5.swip.net!usenet From: Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 04:32:34 +0100 Organization: MTS Technology, Sweden Message-ID: <30FDBF52.4E0A@mts.se> References: <m.duran-1611950252110001@port19.codetel.net.do> <49gkhp$3ag@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <30c6ee29.1582369@news.metronet.com> <1995Dec18.145106.44180@ac.dal.ca> <jragosta-1812951544340001@ppp-1017.dca.net> <4bpgk6$jc1@vodka.intele.net> <4bvd1r$qn3@sloth.swcp.com> <brw-2912951023390001@dallas28.dfw.net> <adtDKD2D7.8Fw@netcom.com> <philw-3012951518520001@philw.users.xplor.com> <30e5f7e7.2440179@news.metronet.com> <4c7ltf$qv8@bandit.cyberwar.com> <30e7ed1c.50295535@news.metronet.com> <30E7B855.4D69@ix.netcom.com> <linger-0101961329420001@linger.norden1.com> <30ECC07C.67C7@osu.edu> <4cutc1$oq5@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> <30F46E56.6CCF@mts.se> <nevin-1001962233400001@150.135.1.79> <30F5B856.28D@medcor.mcgill.ca> <30F9D39B.2D14@38north.com> <4dd48n$j06@news.missouri.edu> <adtDL8K1J.n56@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup101-021.swipnet.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b3 (WinNT; I)