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gato@freud.inst.com (gato) wrote:




>: There are "so few" apps for a PPC?  Have you checked out the size of
>: the Power Macs native software base lately?  Hardly small- even games
>: are flowing to it like water.

>"Hardly small?"  Maybe by Apple standards.  (Which is not saying much.)

What do you want that's not available in a Power Mac version?
Certainly, it's not as large as a Windows base, but most product areas
are covered.

I don't own a Power Mac, btw.  Don't plan to buy one in the near
future.  486DX2/66, running Windows 95.  I simply have exposure to
both platforms.  I don't like ignorance on either side.


>: >Finally, the P6, whether or not the initial 133MHz version's stats impress
>: >you, will be in an architecture designed around SMP.  Systems with as many
>: >as four procs are expected. 

>: Already available with the 604 actually.  Nothing new here.

>Big deal, they cost you an arm and a leg too. 

Oh yes, the P6, retailing for likely twice the amount of the 604 when
it arrives, will somehow be _cheaper_ in quad-processor
configurations?  

>computers, not servers or workstations.  Like I said, affordability is a 
>big issue, and with marketing like Apple's (worst disaster I've seen 
>since new Coke) the prices will probably stay way up there, if history's 
>any reference. 

Apple will not be setting the prices for very long.  CHRP machines and
the clones will.  

>cheaper to manufacture (with so few transistors) and yet such costly 
>systems, even though their architecture is becoming evre more PC-like 
>(Apple has announced a commitment tostop ignoring standards).  

Really.  Check the prices of Power Macs and Pentiums.  Even with
Apples large margins, they are _extremely_ close.  

>dominating the PC market now, what will happen with Win95 and the P6?
>No wonder Apple's scrambling so desperately for a market share.  As for 
>the upcoming onslaughts by PC  companies, they may just be the nails in 
>the coffin as far as the war for home computing is concerned.

Certainly, 95 and the P6 are significant threats- 95 more so, as both
the p6 and 604 are out of the range of the typical user.  95
adddresses many problems of the PC architecture, but then again Macs
were selling when they were 2-3 times the price of PC's.  Now that
they're equal, the advantages may balance out.  As well, Mac clones
simply give the machine more exposure and competitive advantage.


>No, I'm a "left brained PC user."  Is all this logic too much for you?

"Logic" is often subjective.