Windows TP .... nyuk, nyuk

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> Actually, Macs have dropped in price considerable over the past year to
> year and a half.  They may still be a bit more expensive, but not like
> they used to be.

This is true, but that's why Job's actions are so frustrating.  It's
the Mac Clone manufacturers which have brought those prices down, and
Job is telling them "We're not interested in you anymore."

> The PPC is up to 350 mHz for a single  processor desktop computer.

Processor speed isn't everything, y'know :-)

The engineering group I'm in is constantly evaluating differing CPU's
to replace the AMD processors we currently use in most of our
products.  These are clones of Intel processors (until we sold the SBC
part of our business, Intel was one of our major competitors).  We've
evaluated the PPC, and found it to be wanting.  It has some very
serious bottlenecks in I/O processing.  Since we do I/O products, this
limitation is a Very Bad Thing.

> That is not the fault of Apple, but of Netscape and Microsoft, etc. 

Have you all heard of the IE prank which MS attempted to foist on
Netscape which backfired?  See the story and photo at:

  http://people.netscape.com/francis/MozillaTriumphant.html

> Rhapsody
> will eventually be released not only for PPC Apple machines, but also
> for Pentiums and other processors.

Vaporware.

Richard Masoner
richardm@cd.com