Re: TI-H:PowerPC

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Subject: Re: TI-H:PowerPC
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 19:10:34 -0800 (AKDT)
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>Low availabilty
>Higher Price

You get what you pay for

>Fewer good applications (games)

I run all PC games.

>Less Expandability

I have a capability for 15 Ultra Wide SCSI drives, 4 IDE, and 7 Fast SCSI
built into my computer.  ALso, 3 PCI slots, with a max of 5.

>Steve Jobs
>Backwards interface design (some of it)
>Less hardware other than for graphics design

Hmmm...  8bit sound on the 128k mac?  :)

>Most of the 3D hardware/software is now for the PC

Nope.  :)

>MS-DOS outranks Mac OS in market share

MS-DOS is also obsolete.

>Not as many snickers when you say "I have a Pentium ][ 400MHz"

depending on the group.

>Only one mouse button

A 2 button PC mouse works fine on my mac.

>What fun is a computer without a command prompt

Get Macs bug and you can do command line debugging.

>LISA was just a brief fling

So was the IBM Display Writer CP/M computer.

>If you incorporate DOS into the os anyway, why not just buy a PentiumPC

More software selection.

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