🚀 go-pugleaf

Chad Irby wrote:
> 
> That whole "upgradability" argument really doesn't hold water.  Very few
> folks actually upgrade their wintel machines- it's usually just as easy
> (and often about as cheap) to buy a whole new computer.
> 
> Oh- and if you *really* want to upgrade an older Mac, you can drop in
> anything from a "fast" 68030 (33 to 50 MHz) to a medium-speed PPC 601...
> Chad

Don't humble the Mac guys with thier proprietary machines.  We <ANC> sell
PC systems and the one big factor that entices sales is that the components
are non-proprietary and there is built in flexibility.

If a 486 owner wants to upgrade his system, he can buy a Pentium Motherboard 
for $199 - with Pipeline Burst Cache SRAM on board. The Pentium75 CPU is $120.
This board includes Video, HDD cntrl, FDD cntrl., 2 hispeed serials, 
1 parallel port.

If a MacII motherboard should fail or the buyer wants more speed what can
he do? How about a IIci, or IIcx.  Now don't tell me that they don't fail,
because I owned a MacII and IT FAILED - I was told by Apple that thier repair
policy was my ONLY choice. They wanted $900 to replace my motherboard with a
new or REFURBISHED one. My PC friends were buying new motherboards for thier 
replacements that they did for kicks - and not for neccessity. I cried bloody 
murder and left the Apple world forever. I have bad feelings for a company 
that takes advantage of loyal customers.  NEVER AGAIN.

In the PC world My customers can tell me to go take a hike and buy from a 
Zillion other competitors - competition is great - the customer wins.

In short - The PC with fierce competition in the s/w and h/w place is winning
and winning strong.  

	There are over 100 MILLION PCs in the world today. 
	Intel owns greater than 70% of the WORLDS CPU Market.
	There are over 35 different choices for Operating Systems
	on the PC - You see the PCs strength is in FLEXIBILITY - not
	Proprietary do whatever the manufacturer has decided you can do with the
	system.

	Apples market share is declining. 
	I have been told that Apple's biggest buyers (i.e. Eli Lilly, Dupont)
	are mandating only Windows machines for new purchases. Harris Corp.
	among many others are also mandating Windows machines. Although Apple
	does sell alot - the tide is turning and I see customers everyday that
	tell me that they are ready to make the change over to Windows95.

BYE APPLE - your tombstone will read - THANKS - BUT THEN AGAIN - NO THANKS.

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Eb Farris, ANC			PC's Forever		Linux, FreeBSD, WinNT, Win95
efarris@surfusa.com					Solaris ... WOW what a Choice!
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