Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 15:38:39 11/17/99
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On November 17, 1999 at 15:43:39, William Dozier wrote: >Good/Day Every/one, and to whome it all may concern: I have not own a Mac all >that long. The machine that i have is a performa PPc 6200/CD running at 75Mz and >i got in 95: by today standards its obsolete. It has never been in the shop to >be repaired; it does just about everthing that the new computers can do today, >its not all that fast, but its not noticeable. And can make it speak spanish if >i want to. Most people dont know that apple doesnt advertise all that much, it >doesnt have to; the computer and the O/S speaks for it self. You get what you >pay for. Most of Apples computer cpu and mother/boards are custome made, even >the low/end ones. The Mac from the very begening had windows O/S, But it was >called the Mac O/S inwhich M/S stole the idea. Because before windows 3x it was >DOS/no wondows/ Mac O/S was windows/even thoug it not called windows >All system are prone to crash/ But it doesnt crashes that much to make me feel >that im sorry that i brought a mac/not to mention i never had a virus on my Mac. > >Every/body that ia always bad mouthing the Mac, Why dont they take the time like >i did and find out for there/selfs instead of taking the word of people who dont >know nothing about the Mac/mostley hersay and rumours. For me/before i open my >big mouth i do some reasearch on the product that im buying/i do not depend on a >sales/man to tell me about the product im buying. Most of the time when the >product cost a lot/or investmenet/Computer is a investment in my book. So when i >walk into the store to buy somthing, espcially computers, PCs or Mac, i have >done my research to make a intellegent choice./Not what Bill gates tell me to >buy. Mac are no better than PCs, You really dont need steep learning curve to >oporate a Mac/ That is why most schools in the US choose Macs./ That to mention >that some of our millatary has switch over to Mac for sercurity and the yk2 >problem. People in the Mac community never had to worry about the yk2 problem, >because Apple thought about that in advance. We dont have to run out and get a >yk2 fix. So my old machine is not that old at all; its yk2 ready. That a Mac for >you. Best regards to all./William > >Ps. It handel chess programs just fine/no crashes. The only reason why I never bought a MAC is because there are "no software" available for MAC's. Before people start lynching on me for saying that there are "no software" available, let me be more precise on my definition. I don't mean games, but there are a lot of Engineering and Business software which are only available for PC's. The reason why this trend was because of bad marketing of Apple Computers, they charged an arm and a leg for their MAC's, and in those days it was black and white monochrome MAC's. It was simply out of reason for a lot of consumers, so the software developers decided to investe in creating PC's software because there was a large demand than the MAC counterpart. So the same is true today, there are a lot of Chess software available for the PC's and very very few commercial software for the MAC. Yes, I know, you probably will tell me that I can run a Windows emulator in the MAC to run DOS/Windows software. The problem with emulators is like running your software in interpreter mode, which translate to slow, and it may not always work. I don't buy a MAC because the software available for my needs are only available for the PC's. Although I think that MAC's are superior to PC's, but availability of software is what determines my choice of computers. Laurence
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