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Article #57Re: IBM or Mac for young child?
From: Danny & Norma
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 00:00
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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. - DC In article <dmorgan-1110961049540001@charlton-ppp7.ruralnet.net.au>, dmorgan@ruralnet.net.au (Damien Morgan) wrote: > > In article <Pine.ULT.3.91.961010114353.11268B-100000-100000@east>, Bob > Jones <bjones@east.slc.k12.ut.us> wrote: > > > If you were asking for an adult, I would say, definitely a Macinstosh. > > They are much easier to use productively. For a child get whatever you > want. > > They'll learn it. > > > > Bob Jones > > > > On 4 Oct 1996, Andy D. Digh wrote: > > > > I agree wholeheartedly! > Doesn't matter whether it's for a child or an adult...buy a mac. They're > easier to use, have less problems, and the computer doesn't get in the way > of the work you might be trying to do. > NOTE: Permission to include my name and email address on any email mailing lists is expressly forbidden. Any violation of this will be reported to your postmaster as a formal complaint.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d73a,b372b0696c2ecb69 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d73a,public X-Google-Thread: 114f31,b372b0696c2ecb69 X-Google-Attributes: gid114f31,public X-Google-Thread: 1049ea,b372b0696c2ecb69 X-Google-Attributes: gid1049ea,public From: nc07276@goodnet.com (Danny & Norma) Subject: Re: IBM or Mac for young child? Date: 1996/10/12 Message-ID: <53n2om$249s@news.goodnet.com> X-Deja-AN: 188870529 references: <5325bbINNr91@duncan.cs.utk.edu> <Pine.ULT.3.91.961010114353.11268B-100000-100000@east> <dmorgan-1110961049540001@charlton-ppp7.ruralnet.net.au> organization: Social security takes from the poor and gives to the rich newsgroups: misc.kids.computer,can.schoolnet.chat.teachers,k12.chat.teacher