Re: PC or Mac?

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <a35k79$bri$1@merope.saaf.se>, Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se> wrote:

>Yes, Apple did this with the Mac (or, more properly, with the Lisa
>which predated the Mac; I think early Mac's could run some Lisa
>software).  But not so with the iMac - removing some peripheral as
>standard equipment and instead offering it as add-on equipment is
>hardly a revolution -- and neither is painting the covers in a
>different color.  After all the iMac was a Mac, able to run Mac
>software.  Steve Job's NeXT computer was probably more of a
>revolution: it couldn't run any Mac software.  However some
>revolutions fail.

The PowerMac was a "revolution", and a well-executed one too.  OS X is
another, not so well-executed.
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