I think one of the reviewers of the Windows 95 launch got it about
right: "Windows 95 = Mac '89"!

I once had to set up for a course in Gothenburg 8 completely new PCs and
4 new Macs - with instructions and software in only Swedish
(which I don't speak or read).  Despite 15 years PC/Windows experience and
never having touched a Mac before I had the Macs unpacked and running
using just instinct and dead-reckoning in a third of the time it took me
to get a PC set up.

The Mac problem is, as you say, software availability and cost...


Patrick Boylan


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On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Arthur H. Harris wrote:

> Good advice about one person's bad experience, since I've worked with
> Dell machines for many years and are happy with them. As for ease of
> use, that seems to depend largely these days on what system you're
> brought up on--I find a Mac much harder to maneuver around on than a PC,
> and the Mac people I work with find the opposite. (Of course, keep in
> mind that Microsoft has "borrowed" many of the features that originally
> made Macs more intuitive).
>
> The greater software availability for PCs generally outweighs other
> factors for me.
>

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