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 In article <Yy9i3BAG$FbxEwVk@wookie.demon.co.uk>
  John Beardmore <wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk> said:-

>In article <9604101455.AA002fo@mchunt.demon.co.uk>, Martin Hunt
><martin@mchunt.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>>>The worrying thing is that this is watched by huge numbers of people
>>>considering buying machines, who will (not suprisingly) think that an
>>>IBM compatible machine is the only option.
>>>
>>>Surely this warrants a few letters to the BBC....(unfair representation,
>>>advertising and all that!) email pov@bbc.org.uk
>
>I'm a great fan of preserving steam trains and old unix boxes, but for
>the beginner, it seems hard to quibble with their chioce of spec.

Fair enough not mentioning Unix, Atari's etc BUT they made 2 major 
errors:
1, No mention of the differences between processors except by speed, 
people watching that would think a 75mhz Pentium to be the same as a 
75mhz 386,
2, Macs are far easier for the begginger than PC's, are you seriously 
trying to tell me a PC novice is going to want to make their own 
bootdisk with accompanying autoexec.bat file? An Apple machine is far 
easier for beginners and far quicker to get up and running.
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