Re: Action needed or Apple becomes a looser!

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4uru2k$8mb@crl9.crl.com>, Sam Ismail <dastar@crl.com> wrote:
>Not true in the least.  You should have recently read about the "under
>$500.00" Oracle "internet computer" which has hardly any computer
>power at will, but will instead rely on the server which one logs into
>over the internet for its computing power.  The above-described system
>would be an EXCELLENT internet computer, and that is the first thing I
>thought of when I read the description (although it would probably
>need some more RAM for web-pages, but RAM is cheap these days anyway).

   $500 is _WAY_ too much. A modem, mouse and keyboard addon for the
Sega Saturn (Saturn has a street price of $199, addons would probably
be $100 more, tops) have been in the works for quite some time. No HD,
but you can put Netscrape, yahoo (well, a snapshot, anyhow) and a few
popular destinations on a CD or cartridge, and your $500 box that only
does internet is now a paperweight.

   Besides, when you're done surfing the web on a game platform with
modem, you can pop in a game and kill a few thousand aliens as stress
relief. $500 internet boxes sure won't be able to do that for a while.

   If you've already got a desktop computer, use it to connect to the
internet. If you've got an extendable game platform, it'll be cheaper
and more fun to use that. If you have neither, buying a computer is
far better in the long run.

Nathan Mates
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