Re: Apple's ways

[Ralf Quint <Ralf_Quint@hot_mail.com>]

On 05 Aug 2001 18:58:12 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

>pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
>
>>> They are GRADUALLY phased out providing a transition period for
>>> users thus maintaining continuity.  This is something that Apple
>>> under Jobs never understood.
>> 
>>Jobs was a visionary, not a practical man..... :-)
>
>Not practical indeed.  iMac was brilliant, for example.  If they only
>lowered the price.
>
>If I were a user in early 2000 and saw an iMac and a plain old PC
>side by side, my first instinct would be to go for the iMac.  Then
>I would see the price difference and the spec difference and I'd
>select the PC.  Were the iMac the SAME price as a name brand
>PC (say Compaq), the iMac would have been a LOT more
>popular.
>
Well, i must say, that if this would happen, the iMacs would finallyy
get the bad reputation they deserve. I have to deal with Mac's only
partially (ok, i have an old IIsi myself), but those plastic boxes are
just crap.
They overheat, they are not expandable (only by expensive USB
peripherals), you're stuck with the small screen (try to do DTP or CAD
on them).....
I'm not one of those people that bash on Mac's or on PC's just for the
fun of it or because everybody else does it, it's just practical
experience.
If i get a Mac for myself, i will stay way clear of those cubes and
rather get a real G4 one, though this will require quite a bit more of
money. And they are (and probably always will be) far more expensive
than a similar equipped Intel machine.....

Ralf