Re: Apple advertisement

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <5even4$e5v@inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>,
Christopher D. Heer <cheer@i.hate.spam> wrote:

[snip]

>>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.

I don't think so myself. Which would you call more versatile, a three slot
Mac IIci, which needs cards to have ethernet and 24 bit video, or a two
slot Quadra 700, which has ethernet and 24 bit color built in? I'll take
built in over installed myself.
-- 
Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com