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Article #3554Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: William Taylor
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 19:37
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 19:37
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In article <Dp12AK.HuI@midway.uchicago.edu> david raoul derbes, loki@quads.uchicago.edu writes: >Oh, please. The average home user wants to learn the arcana of unix? >The average home user wants to become their own sysop? Maybe, just maybe, >if Caldera gets going strong, and the user can be shielded from all the >internals, you might see more people using the system; but this is a >long shot... > The average user wants a system about as complicated as a game console. No more. In my experience with large corporate sites, the skill level is about that high. Maybe 1 out of 50 could be considered a "power user" capable of performing complex tasks un-aided by IT. Anything relatively complex seems to get handed off to IT. IMO, a system about the size and shape of a Sparcstation IPX, with external drives, CDROM's, etc that has mac-quality PnP and firewire/USB is the ticket for massive home penetration. Users want a fast, hassle free box that is about the size of a component stereo and that is 100% PnP. WT
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!ix-mem-tn1-15.ix.netcom.com!wwtaylor From: William Taylor <wwtaylor@ix.netcom.com> 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: 1 Apr 1996 19:37:33 GMT Organization: CMC, Inc Distribution: world Message-ID: <4jpb9t$lm4@dfw-ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> References: <3155aa77.4535670@news.onramp.net> <danpop.828243225@rscernix> <danpop.828244798@rscernix> <stephenkDp4z92.3An@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-mem-tn1-15.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-NETCOM-Date: Mon Apr 01 1:37:33 PM CST 1996 X-Newsreader: Nuntius 2.0.4_68K X-XXMessage-ID: <AD858CA292018D2F@ix-mem-tn1-15.ix.netcom.com> X-XXDate: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 18:37:38 GMT