Re: Apple advertisement

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

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.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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