Re: TI-H: Mel??? Err /: BYE!!!
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Re: TI-H: Mel??? Err /: BYE!!!
>Dell has 92% loyalty. (PC world survey '97) Gateway has 92% loyalty, I
>can provide other higher than 70% loyalty compaines. :) What does Apple
>have? I bet now with all the problems its at max 60-70%.
They aren't having problems now. :P
>Sorry, I don't
>buy that. Apple is small and measly because it IS small and measly. It
>needed Microsoft to help keep it ALIVE!
MS needs apple to keep it alive. Bill Gates has no sense of creativity.
>People look at them as dieing
>because there is virtually no software for it. No, you compare Apple to
>the sum of All its PC competitors. You are trying to falsely make Apple
>look like its larger than it is. The PC market is filled with clones,
>and to be a fare comparison, you take the sum of all PC manufacturers
>and compare it to the DIFFRENT Apple computer.
You have to compare company by company. Either that, or add all of the
Apple IIs that are in use now.
>For Movies, SGI is what the pros use. Macs are crap when compared to SGI
>machines. Sorry, TV shows (Most noteably Star Trek) may use Macs. Most
>don't.
Ummm... :) You're wrong.
>Because they are nothing in their own.
Because if you buy a Mac you get the best of both worlds. Not half of one.
>So does Win95/98. So? It requires more skill to operate, and more time
>to learn to use its features, but after you learn, it is MORE POWERFUL.
More powerful compared to my TI-82.
>But, I guess a simple OS, for simple tasks is okay... :) The more
>diffacult to OS is to learn, the more POWERFUL the OS is.
You are *way* wrong on that.
>DOS was more
>powerful than Windows, and MacOS. And Unix is the most powerful of all.
In that case, press Command+power on a mac and you have a computer that is
more powerful that DOS, Unix, since most people don't know how to use
MacsBug.
>No its not. You need a Mac technician to do anything with hardware.
No you don't.
>On the few software titles made for it, but the true reason for buying a
>computer is GAMES. (Yes! Belive it or not!) And PC hardware/software is
>light years ahead of Apples in that respect. 3d cards, which Mac doesn't
>have. (NOTE TO GRANT: This means NATIVE hardware, not PC hardware in a
>Mac)
O get a life. Apples have way more good quality 3d rendering cards than
PCs. Just because there is some chinese $20 card that does pictures of
boxes, that doesn't count as good. Or is that what good is on PCs? The
cards on mac perform faster anyway. If a card is made for PCI, its made
for *COMPUTERS* not just IBMs. :P
>You can't. You don't have access to simple system controls.
You don't know nothing about a mac.
>You can't
>hack the Memory Settings
you shure as he** can.
>if you feel like it, you can't overclock
You can either buy an overclock kit or clip resistors on your own. There
are soo many overclock kits for macs.
>if you
>feel like it. You can't do as much with a Mac as with a PC.
You're right. You can do way more with one if you try.
>On a PC, pressing a paperclip in a small hole releases the
>tray/caddy.
Hmmm.. I don't know how many macs you've ever seen, but every single one
I've seen has a paper clip option.....unless someone decided to save some
money and use cheepo IBM hardware.
>This feature did NOT work on the Mac. (I can't remember
>Model #, but I think it was a <something> 601.) Another thing, IBM users
>can buy a new HD, install it INTERNALLY without having to get a tech to
>do it.
If you can't unplug a ribbon cable, put the new hard drive in, and plug the
ribbon cable back in you need a tech. it is too easy. This e-mail you
sent me is a joke.
>Mac users buy EXTERNAL drives or get a tech to do it.
Nope. Mac users buy a combination of IDE and SCSI and its all transparent
how they all work together with the system.
>Proof? Hardware to hardware bench. Bechmarks can be cheated. Maybe the
>G3 designers made the proc so it would inflate the Bytemark, w/o
>actually an increase in speed. A PII-266 does 471 MIPS, a G3 366 671
>MIPS, where is the big diffrence? 100 Mhz, only a diff of 200 MIPS?
You *CANT* compare MIPS between architectures. You should know that.
The PC uses CISC technology, PPC uses RISC.
>PII-333 for $2200. Complete with 8GB HD, 19 in. Monitor, 24x CD, Modem,
>PCI Sound card, NIC card, STB Velocity 128. Low end on PC costs $1000.
>with monitor. High end is as high as you want to pay. PII-300s go for
>$1400. (Sorry, try looking up #s instead of saying yours are so
>wonderful, they might not be.)
You can get a mac for that price easily.
>Ha, recent powerbook adv. Lowest $2300, higher $3200. High quality PCs
>go for ~ the same prices, but lowest P233, $1400. Next.
Intel uses lowpower (low performance) chips in laptops. IBM's G3 chip is
so low power that they can use it in laptops without modifications. WIth
apple, you are getting a desktop computer in a laptop case.
>Okay, PC is the original Shareware/Freeware market. PC's are the
>MAINSTREAM, Macs are a Small niche. Linux started out on PC, the
>MOTHERLOAD of Freeware is on PC. Sorry, next.
Linux didn't start on the PC. The PC was a junky computer that IBM
released back in the ol' days because IBM wantted to use 8bit technology
instead of 16 like everyone else...
You need to check your specs.
>Hmm, you use Macs and C128s. Where is your Amgia? <sp?> ;) Macs are not
>ahead of their time, they were in 1984, but now, they are crap. No one
>wants them, except Mac users. You can't survive without new people
>buying them. Grant said 150,000 iMacs in 10 days. I don't have sales
>figures, nor does he to back that up, but I would estimate that many PCs
>are sold a week. (If not more)
make your PC do this. I took out my 3d rendering card (mainly for my video
and photoshop work) and ran software emulation for 3d effects. I ran at
60fps which a 233MHz G3 could do at 21fps without the card. PPCs improve
in greater leaps. Unlike 5% faster each processor like Intel.
>A note to people who want to further this argument, PLEASE LOOK UP FACTS
>ON THE PC.
I know the facts about both. I run a mac www server and a pc ftp server at
gussie.alaska.net. I run about 3 different flavors of linux on the PCs and
macs.
>If you don't know them, you can't argue.
And your argument is laughable with all of the false claims that have been
made.
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