Posted by Arecibo on December 25, 1998 at 06:42:21:
The problem you people have is that you simply don't see the fundamental properties that make Macs better than PC's.
1. Macs are entirely bitmapped, unlike PC's which have to emulate bitmapping on top of a text-based OS.
2. Macs have interface superiorities; menubar on the top of the screen, single button mouse, close & resise boxes on opposite sides of the window, longer file names, use of puntuation in filenames, 100% true 32-bit operations, and so on
3. Mac CPU's are without argument faster than any x86 based pc; twice the cache, RISC architecture, copper (as of this spring), 333 and faster G3's are considered supercomputers by the US gotv't, take far less power and half the size, ect ect
4. Mac motherboards have all the necessities built-in to save cost & space; SCSI, sound, video, ethernet, serial ports, mouse/keyboard/joystic/whatever port (ADB), RAGE 2 graphics chipset, ect ect
5. The Macintosh was designed to be a not just a tool which you have to be trained to use, or a vehicle which costly tech support drives for you, but a Medium for information and human imagination. A doorway to a world of creativity accessible by the click of a mouse. And it works too! Without Macintosh there would be no Internet (only slow text-based BBS systems), no mouse, no digitally-enhanced video or special effects, no icons or windowed interfaces (would have been filed at Xerox PARC as "uunprofiteable venture"), no desktop publishing (just paper, scissors, hot-wax and a photocopier), generally nothing which made computers a profiteable industry.
YES, I said no profiteable computer industry, and I'll tell you why: a comparison was done in the early 80's between companies which used computers, and those who still used typewriters & pencils. It was found that there was NO increase in productivity whatsoever for the companies which used the computers. The results said there might even be a DECREASE in overal productivity (mostly due to training & maintenance). So what's the point of having computers? Why should people take the risk of working different? The answer is apparent in the 90's. They have pushed human thinking forward in it's evolution. On the virtual desktop we have created cyberspace and the internet and better entertainment and everything which defines the last 15 years as a time of cultural revolution. None of this could have happened if Apple Computer hadn't delivered the virtual desktop to common people in 140 countries around the world. This webboard and this argument would not exist without it. The world now revolves around the most original thinkers, those who have chosen to think different, and all for the better. That's what Macintosh began.
Think different.