PC comments you wrote.....

[bjbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin)]

In reply to:

>     With all the PC can do (preemptive multitasking, real music synthesis,
> complex games, more variety/expandability, etc.) which the Mac can't do or
> offer at the moment, along with the fact PC clones are cheaper, custom
> configurable and more available -- not to mention have a GUI more than
> comparable to the Finder -- how does Apple expect to survive? The PowerMac
> hasn't exactly made people stop dead in their tracks and jump back to
> Apple, nor has System 7.5.6 made much of a splash in the computer world.
> I may sound like I'm putting down the Mac, but there needs to be significant
> _advantages_ to make people think twice before rushing out and buying a
> generic PC clone. The argument about easy of use and plug'n'play doesn't
> cut it anymore, PC's have or are quickly catching up in that area, so what's
> left? I'm not much of a PC fan, but when it came time to choose between the
> two, I found more pluses on the PC side.

I don't want to see this forum turned into a PC vs. Mac advocacy group any
more than anyone else here, but I just out and out disagree with everything
you say above.  You obviously haven't spent much time using Wintel
machines.  Windows 95, 3.1 and all the rest are a cheap ripoff of the Mac
GUI and the machines just don't plain deliver.  They don't have built-in
SCSI, there are incompatibilities galore, Plug and Play is a myth on these
computers, and the list goes on and on.  I know because I am forced to work
on them all day long and I hate them with a passion.  If you think they ARE
so great, wait until you have to edit win.ini, config.sys, or autoexec.bat
file(s) to get a new peripheral to work correctly--or at all.  Good luck.

--bj
Apple //--///--Macintosh user/supporter/collector