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Ah come on, don't even discuss hardware, it changes monthly (one day PCs 
are faster, next Apples are).  The REAL reason most of us wont buy a 
Mac?  SOFTWARE.  Macs don't got none, sorry.  That IS the fact, and you 
can wine and say yes they do get games, apps, etc.  But all you get is 
like the top 2% in popularity software at about 1-2 years later.  And 
that is if the company thinks it worth their time spending money making 
it for the Mac (ahem, Lucasarts lost a shit load making Dark Forces for 
the Mac, "Never do that again").  So when someone tells you to get a real 
computer, they're not insulting your equally impressive hardware, they're 
insulting your Fisher Price version of software and an OS that smiles at 
you when you boot (ugh!).  Don't sidetrack the issue to hardware.....

Anton Smirnov (smi...@bu.edu) wrote:
: JCT (jt...@mci2000.com) wrote:
: : Exactly... well put.  "It doesn't matter who's first, but who's better."
: : All in all, someone was bound to come up with that idea.  If Apple
: : didn't buy the GUI idea from Xerox, back in the good ol' days, someone
: : else would have bought it, or may have just produced something like it. 
: : Even though the Mac sucks so much, I certainly HOPE and WISH they don't
: : go out of business completely.  Why?  Because if they went out of
: : business, there would be basically very little competition, which would
: : drive the cost of WinTel products and machines up.  Then again, it might
: : not.  :)>  Maybe uSoft may drive their OS prices up.

: Umm, I hate to dissapoint, but the current Macs (Power Tower Pro, to be exact)
: benchmarks as 20 % faster than the Pentium with MMX for doing graphics,
:  despite having inferior
: software & a too slow buss speed (buss speed should not fall below 20% of CPU
:  speed. The Power Towers is under that). The Pentium II (with MMX) is about as
: fast as the PowerTower, but the G3 chip that ships next month will make the
: the PowerTower 40% faster (by benchmarks - we aren't talking clock
: speed. clock speeds don't mean that much) than the current model