I disagree the prices are comparable. Maybe you should see who is doing
your instituitional buying. My Mac prices are similar to yours but I just
bought a Pentium 133, 16 MB RAM, 2 G HD, 6XCD, 28.8 Modem, and 17" monitor
for about $3000. That is at least a 1000 less than a Mac with a monitor.
By the way, I own 2 Power PC, 1 Quadra and 3 smaller Macs so I am not
Mac-phobic.
>I suggest you find out who does your institutional computer-buying. For
>example, I can get a Mac 7500/100, 1G HD, CD, 16MB RAM for $2416. A
>comparable (ha ha) IBM (or Zenith, with whom we have a contract) configured
>with Pentium 133, 16MB RAM, 1.2G HD, no CD (!) costs $2253. Monitors and
>other peripherals cost the same for any computer. The days of Macs being
>considerably more expensive than PCs are over for the general public and
>have never even existed for academics at most institutions. Just wanted to
>get in my 2 cents worth before this entire thread is declared a "Mac vs PC
>discussion" and is properly shutdown by our list administrator!! In case
>you hadn't guessed, I wholeheartedly agree with all the Mac supporters'
>replies. And, to throw another iron in the fire (under the
>FearUncertaintyDoubt category previously mentioned in this thread),
>consider this - What are the current Win 95 users going to do when
>Microsoft starts to push its true multitasking system (some sort of NT/95
>hybrid) within a year? I guess its just another upgrade (sidegrade?!) like
>moving from Win 3.1 to 95 (!!dream on!!).
>Rob Palmer
>Ctr Env Biotech/Univ Tenn
>
>>...>My personal views on the future of the Mac OS aside, I will limit
>>myself to
>>>saying that getting an image processing program for the IBM that is
>>>equivalent to NIH-Image (Freeware) will cost you easily five figures (well,
>>>unless you run NIH-Image in Mac OS emulation mode on the IBM).
>>>Charles Thomas
>>
>>
>>I agree NIH-Image is great and has a big user base but has anybody who has
>>used both NIH Image and the Windows 95 based ImageTool feel like comparing
>>the two. I have learned to appreciate Macs and I think they will be around
>>for a long time but the bottom line is that even with academic pricing, you
>>can get a more powerful PC (RAM/monitor/etc) than Mac for the same bucks.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>
>>Thomas E. Phillips, Ph.D.
>>Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
>>Director, Molecular Cytology Core Facility
>>3 Tucker Hall
>>University of Missouri
>>Columbia, MO 65211
>>(314)-882-4712 (voice)
>>(314)-882-0123 (fax)
Thomas E. Phillips, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Director, Molecular Cytology Core Facility
3 Tucker Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
(314)-882-4712 (voice)
(314)-882-0123 (fax)
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