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

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From: Christopher C. Wood
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 16:26

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In article <4dj8am$chfa@navajo.gate.net>, cirby@gate.net (Chad Irby) writes:
|> Dave Glue (daveacg@interlog.com) wrote:
|> : Who said there would be 40 million?  The most optimistic was
|> : Dataquest, who stated 30 million _shipped_, 20 million _sold_. 

|> Nope- they said 30 million _sold_.  Even the most pessimistic
|> prediction from the "experts" was on the order of 16 million.
|> Hell, even Sangria was more optimistic than to predict 7 million...

Even I thought the 16 Million copies was a gimmie, because of
preloads.  Time to polish some of the scratches out of my crystal
ball.

Chris
-- 
Speaking only for myself, of course.
Chris Wood    christw@lexis-nexis.com   ChrisCWood@eworld.com

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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: 18 Jan 1996 16:26:50 GMT
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