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Danny & Norma wrote:
> 
> I saw a study that showed people more productive with the windows 95 .vs.
> the macintosh.  I posted a message about that here a year ago.  Studies that
> show that the macintosh are more productive were done prior to windows 95.
> The Gartner group use to say that it was cheaper to own a macintosh because
> of the support costs.  They know say a PC is cheaper.
> This is very true. However note that Apple announced this past week that they
will be offering Windows NT on some of their systems next year. I don't know
if this is only on the machines targeted to the corporate marketplace (where
NT use is skyrocketing and Mac use is decreasing) or across the board. However
you probably will NOT be able to take a piece of NT software intended for an
Intel platform, and run it on a Mac, the software will have two different
versions (though software companies will likely include both versions on
the CD-ROM, provided it isn't a lot of work to recompile it for the Mac).

(I look forward to NT on the Mac because at work the main drawback to the Mac,
is how poor the networking is on it, and communicating with Mac users is limited
to simple e-mail).

Support costs are no longer really an issue on the PC, IF you buy a fully
configured machine with everything you need. It IS easier to add hardware
to the Mac, and PC owners go crazy when having to add hardware and deal
with IRQs, DMAs, and I/O addresses. Plug and Play on the PC hasn't helped
very much either. But most PCs sold theses days have everything a home user
needs, and there isn't a lot of need for any add-in cards. The cost of PC
add-on hardware is much less due to competition, which may also be an issue
to some people (it used to be said that the extra cost of Mac stuff was more
than offset by the lower support and training costs, but not anymore).

The main issue is really software. Read any article, any ad, for software,
and when new titles are announced, there's often a caveat 'not all titles
available for Mac,' or something similar. But the flip side is that only
the really good titles make it to the Mac, so it's kind of a built in
filtering mechanism.