Re: Apple advertisement

[cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer)]

It was 24 Feb 1997 22:57:00 GMT.  I was reading instead of working.  And Randy 
Shackelford <shack@deimos.frii.com> said:

>In article <261576164-970224110200@rook.wa.com>,
>Brian Hammack <brian.hammack@rook.wa.com> wrote:

>> Dr. B0Z0 Ratte spewed forth:

>>> > (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
>>> >   'multimedia is standard on macs while you have to install it on PCs'.
>>> >   News to me. My PC came with a CD-ROM, nice fast video board with MPEG
>>> >   decompression, sound card, etc. All built in and preinstalled...

>>And bundled with Windows 95.  The PC producers keep trying to make the
>>systems simpler to run by already putting everything in they think
>>you'll need before they sell it to you.  Which wasn't always the case.

>The P133 box I use at work can only make beep sounds since it has no sound
>card. On the other hand, my Quadra 840AV at home has 24 bit video, S-video
>in and out, NTSC in and out, and 16 bit stereo audio in and out. All this
>with all three expansion slots empty. I can take sampled sounds and play
>them on my Mac Plus. The point is, built in and installed are different
>things entirely.

And largely irrelevant, don't you think?  Ask your average end user if they 
know whether, say, their hard disk controller is "built-in" or "installed."

Or care.
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