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The latest (january 1985) issue of Consumer Reports discusses the Macintosh
in its own article. People who want a relatively unbiased report on the Mac
(made slightly inaccurate by time-- they talk about the no=longer=existing
dearth of software a bit) should pick it up. Below is an excerpt from their
"Recommendations" section, jsut to let you know what they think about it.

    The Apple Macintosh is far and away the easiest computer to learn and
    use that we have ever seen... It is a logically thought-out system taht
    deserves the careful consideration of anyone about to buy a computer to
    work on at home or in a small business.

    We believe that Apple has accomplished what it set out to do. It has
    produced in teh macintosh a computer that's both exceedingly serious in
    its capabilities and exceedingly easy to use. And it has put it in a
    pacage that takes up only 1.4 square feet of desk space. We prefer it
    to the IBM family for those who do not require that old family tie.


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From the ministry of silly talks:		Chuq Von Rospach
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Now look here Mister "I'm not just a word processor"...

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<>
 >  The latest (january 1985) issue of Consumer Reports discusses the Macintosh
 >  ... Below is an excerpt from their
 >  "Recommendations" section, jsut to let you know what they think about it.
 >  
 >  ... We prefer it
 >      to the IBM family for those who do not require that old family tie.

...and for people who don't require a decent selection of software, or
speed in starting or leaving applications, or color, or a good native
development environment, or ...
-- 
D Gary Grady
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Summary: 


 
 > <>
 >>  The latest (january 1985) issue of Consumer Reports discusses the Macintosh
 >>  ... Below is an excerpt from their
 >>  "Recommendations" section, jsut to let you know what they think about it.
 >>  
 >>  ... We prefer it
 >>      to the IBM family for those who do not require that old family tie.
 > 
 > ...and for people who don't require a decent selection of software, or
 > speed in starting or leaving applications, or color, or a good native
 > development environment, or ...

Sigh. This group is NOT here to debate the pros and cons of Mac versus IBM.
If you don't like the Mac, please don't read this group. I promise that I,
who don't like the IBM, won't make snide comments in net.micro.pc. I don't
want to start up turf wars, either. The world has room for both machines to
be a success.

I could come up with any number of equally useless arguments against the
PC. The point is, neither machine is perfect. I prefer the Mac. if you
don't, go play with your intel chip and have fun...

chuq
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National Semiconductor does not require useless disclaimers on posted
material that is obviously not posted by company spokesmen...

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 >>  The latest (january 1985) issue of Consumer Reports discusses the Macintosh
 >>  ... Below is an excerpt from their
 >>  "Recommendations" section, jsut to let you know what they think about it.
 >>  
 >>  ... We prefer it
 >>      to the IBM family for those who do not require that old family tie.
 > 
 > ...and for people who don't require a decent selection of software, or
 > speed in starting or leaving applications, or color, or a good native
 > development environment, or ...
 > -- 
 > D Gary Grady
 > USENET:  {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary

Well, if we're going to start this argument again, we could always talk
about the //c or 128K //e, each of which has 16-color capability and over
five times the software available for anything IBM puts out, and gee, with
the //c you don't even have to buy any esoteric extra garbage to use the
stuff! :-)

	Happy Days,

		.rne.

	"Who 'ya gonna call?"
	"BLUE BUSTERS!"

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 >> ...and for people who don't require a decent selection of software, or
 >> speed in starting or leaving applications, or color, or a good native
 >> development environment, or ...
 >  
 >  Sigh. This group is NOT here to debate the pros and cons of Mac versus IBM.
 >  The point is, neither machine is perfect. I prefer the Mac. if you
 >  don't, go play with your intel chip and have fun...
 >  
 >  chuq

*Sigh* yourself; don't be so defensive.  I like the Mac for some things
and I dearly despise the 8088 architecture in the PC.  What I said was
directed at the posting praising the Consumer Reports article as
"balanced" which it was not.  It glossed over the serious limitations
of the Mac and strongly implied that the ONLY reason to get a PC is if
you happen to be brainlessly hooked on the MSDOS user interface.  Anyone
familiar with the relative merits of the machines can see that this is
nonsense.  As you say, neither machine is perfect.

As for the purpose of net.micro.mac, if the subject of advantages and
disadvantages of the Max is inappropriate for the group, why didn't you
object to the original posting, hmm???

-- 
D Gary Grady
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(919) 684-3695
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