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From: abrazel@iastate.edu (Christan Paul Hamann)
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Subject: Re: FIVE GOOD REASONS WHY IBM'S ARE BETTER THAN MACS
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 12:59:21 -0500
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In article <4ks4ad$2ig@castle.nando.net>, mgtd@nando.net wrote:

> listen to yourself, you are talking about people know know basketball,
> they know NOTHING and I mean NOTHING about computers, therefor they
> want soemthing they don't have to set up, don't have to configure,
> they just want to pulgin and output, they care nothing for power and
> capbilty. NOW YOU TELL ME ONE DECENT person who is computer literate
> and knowledgeable who uses a mac. THEY are useless peice of plastic
> that can't do jack, you must have someone program something in mac for
> them to do ANY APPLICATION!!!!! vs. a pc, they are subordinate, they
> frankly don't have the compability nor the multitude of various
> options, in the mac world THERE ARE NO options, if you can't click it
> you can't do it. 

If you like to spend hours writing autoexec.bat files, it's up to you.  I
know a lot about computers and how they work, I have owned DOS/Windoze
computers in the past, and I switched to the Macintosh because I enjoy
using it, it is a more efficient system, and it can do more with similar
resources as compared to a PC.
 
> AN EXAMPLE: mac in the movies
> if you have seen the net you will understand this. int he movie
> everything was macs (what a horrid world), and to hack the net you
> click an icon. I AM SORRY BUT things arn't just that easy!!! to hack
> anything, it takes a lot of work, not a pretty little "pi" symbol at
> the bottom of the screen

Oh, yeah.  And TOY STORY is real.  So is WarGames.  What about Casper?

Chris Hamann
abrazel@iastate.edu