Miata Mailing List: July 1998, Message #29

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Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA wrote:
>>Surely the PC has come a long way, though. Now, if you buy
two rather
expensive video cards, you can actually split your desktop
across two
monitors--not mirrored--just like a Mac. For many people,
this is the
greatest productivity boost available, much more important
than CPU speed.<<

Actually, under Win98 that would be 8 rather inexpensive
video cards and 8 monitors.  When was the last time you
bought a 1600x1200x32bpp video card for the Mac for under
$300?  You can actually use inexpensive cards that will
deliver 1280x1024x16bpp ($99) in the multiple video setup.

I can also add 2 Voodo2 controllers with a total of 24M of
video memory for $500 and blow away anything available for
gaming on the Mac.

As for ease of use, the Mac is extremely easier to install
new software and hardware 99.9% of the time.  But when you
get that 0.1% that doesn't work, it is almost impossible to
fix due to the lack of tools (software, hardware,
documentation) available.



Tom Blough
tblough@snet.net
Avon, CT

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