J. Neil Doane wrote:
> And we all know Macs come with faster hard drives (SCSI built onboard,
> which _few_ PCs have)...
That's a grossly unfair statement.
PC users have the choice between economical EIDE or
faster SCSI. Mac users have no such choice.
I have an all SCSI PC (running Linux).
> And Macs are much more expandable than
> PCs...more devices will fit on the integrated SCSI bus than the EIDE bus
> on PCs.
That statement is very wrong. Again, SCSI is SCSI, and
as for expandability, most PCs have a row of slots that
can handle millions of products. Most macs have a slot
or two that not many products work with.
> I mean, hardware-wise, they are superior in almost every
> conceivable way.
Simply, no.
> Many of the comments so far have involved comments about Macs from a
> perspective of the OS. Granted, we all know that MacOS is slow and
> cumbersome and _doesn't_ perform as reliably as would we would like it to
> sometimes
...and the problem is that with Macs, that is what you
are pretty much stuck with.
There are more OSs available for Intel hardware than Mac
hardware. Not that it matters because everybody should just
run Linux anyways. ;>
> BeOS and Linux also run on PowerPCs which makes for _powerful_
> servers...
But the Mac version of Linux lags WAY behind the Intel
version, and also has no versions of a lot of software that
is only distributed in binary form.
> I'm not sure I can think of any
> non-Windows95/98/NT OS that will run on an x86-based machine that won't
> run on a Mac better actually.
Linux obviously. Hell, just about anything. What runs better
on a Mac than a PC?
>(And I can run Windows 95 with VirtualPC on
> our G3 _faster_ than it will run on a Pentium 166...and that's while
> running MacOS _at the same time_.)
So? Your Mac cost twice as much as that P-166, that's
no feat. "For twice the price I can run your software".
And I run Mac software on my Intel Linux PC. Well, not
a lot of mac software because there isn't any.
> Agreed, Windows 95 has more applications, but just because the parts are
> more available for a Chevy Camaro doesn't mean it's a better car than a
> Shelby or Lotus.
Parts is an incorrect analogy.
Roads are a better analogy. Owning a Mac is extremely
limiting in so many ways. A weak OS, weak software support,
and pricy hardware.
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Trevor Boicey
Ottawa, Canada
tboicey@brit.ca
http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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