I agree with Jon. I was out of town until now. I am running Aldus PageMaker
4.0 (requires a Mac II or lower) on a PowerMac 8100 now, I also ran it on an
iMac and it works fine. I've upgraded hardware for less than Intel units.
I've got a P166 that my uncle gave to my grandmother that took about 3
minutes to boot (32MB RAM), ran slow, nothing worked right. Sure, cleaning
it out and redoing it all would have been the answer but we replaced it with
a Macintosh Perfora 637CD that I got from a friend for free. The equivelant
of a 486, only a 33MHz 040, and it boots faster, faxes faster, goes on AOL
quicker - basciaclly ran rings around the P133 (really an AMD) and she is
more happy with it. Now the software she has on it - like the Print Shop
Deluxe is Non-PPC based and it is on my PowerMac and runs fine. I for one
have to upgrade more of my software on the PC than I did on the Mac.
Frankly, the PC doens't do anything better than the Mac, it's the other way
around.
- Chris B.
A supporter of...
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>>>>>>>>>T H I N K D I F F E R E N T <<<<<<<<<
> From: Jon Glass <jonglass@usa.net>
> Reply-To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:17:10 +0200
> To: Newtontalk <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
> Subject: Re: NTLK The Mistry of Apple Products (was HWR and inet / chat pkgs)
>
> on 8/12/00 11:21 PM, Ed Kummel at tech_ed@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> There isn't a single
>> Macintosh box around that can make the same claim!
>
> Actually, there is also another way to look at it. I bought a Performa 600
> way back in 94, with OS 7.1. I have since upgraded it to various
> incarnations of 7.5 and 7.6, and recently put in a Quadra 650 board,
> effectively making it the equivalent of a 486, and upgraded the system to
> 8.1, which is probably the equiv. of Windows 98. Granted, I'm a bit behind
> the times, in doing this stuff, but I have _kept_ the same basic computer,
> and upgraded multitudinous times, and have not had to upgrade anything on my
> hardware nor my software. This computer is 8 years old, based on its first
> manufacture date, yet still running solid. I run not the newest software or
> OS, but it is fairly recent stuff. Find any 386 or 486 that can run any
> modern Microsoft OS and software. You can't. That is the difference between
> Mac and Windows.
>
> BTW, I'm running on my PowerPC Powerbook both Word 5.1 and PublishIt Easy.
> Both pre-date the PowerPC processor by several years, yet run without any
> problems in emulation on my Powerbook. In a sense, doing just what you
> claimed a Mac couldn't do. On a Mac, we go both ways. On top of that, our
> hardware has a much longer lifespan than most garden variety Windows
> hardware. Therefore, we win three ways. :-)
> --
> -Jon Glass
> Krakow, Poland
> <mailto:jonglass@usa.net>
> <mailto:glasshaus5@aol.com>
>
> "You think it's a conspiracy by the networks to put bad shows on TV.
> But the shows are bad because that's what people want. It's not like
> Windows users don't have any power; I think they are happy with
> Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought." --Steve Jobs
>
>
>
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