From: rtaylor@honors.uoregon.edu (Russ Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
Date: 25 Jul 92 00:09:25 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon Network Services

In article <1992Jul24.131236.4307@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
smoon@strfleet.gsfc.nasa.gov (Sang J. Moon) writes:
> 
> In article <ewright.711925511@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
> > 
> > In <1992Jul23.143042.14243@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> smoon@strfleet.gsfc.nasa.gov (Sang J. Moon) writes:
> > 
> > >I've been using System 7 with tuneup 1.1.1 for about 6 months now, and I've
> > >had to reinstall system 7 and/or rebuild the desktop file an average of
> > >twice a month.  With 75MB of stuff on my hard drive, this has been the
> > >biggest waste of my time.  
> > You also snuck a lie in sideways.  You talk about reinstalling the
> > system and rebuilding the desktop together, as if these are both 
> > jobs of equivalent complexity.  In fact, all you have to do to
> > rebuild the desktop is to hold down a modifier key during startup.
> > Pretty hard, isn't it?
> 
> You have never rebuilt your desktop in system 7 so you don't know
> what you are talking about.  As far as I know, there is no modifier
> key you can hold down in System 7 to rebuild the desktop.  I received
> an extension from someone which allows me to automatically delete
> the desktop FILE on startup.  Since you have never rebuilt a desktop
> file, you do not know how long it takes.  I have 75MB of stuff, and
> it definitely takes a very long time for it to finish.  If you really
> want it, I'll even time it for you.

????  No modifier key to hold down?
I've had an LC with sys 7 for 6 months now, every once in a while I rebuild
the desktop by holding down option-command on startup.  REAL hard, let me
tell you.  Same think works on every other Mac I've used.  If you're
stupid,
I suppose you could nuke the file with ResEdit (make it visible & delete).

Keep the bullshit off the net, please.
And it takes about 20 sec. (on my LC), with 3000 FILES (the important
number)
taking up 35 Megs, so I doubt it takes several minutes.

> > >If you respond to this post, please list the system you bought and
> > >how much you paid for it.  It shows what you actually have to back your
> > >views.

(I'm buying this next month, the LC is my parents)
Mac IIsi 5/80, 14" color, modem (2400), ex. keyboard, cache card
$3500
+ bucketload of software (price unknown) 
> No.  My claim has always been that Macintosh cost too much, and I can get
> (and have gotten) an equivalent PC based system to do the same work I do
> on a mac at a significantly lower price.  You have been pushing extras
> that the mac gives like ADB, stereo sound, etc. which I admit are nice to
> have but are meaningless at the price Apple charges.  The macintosh is a
> nicer machine than the PC, but is it worth 2 to 3 times the price of a
> corresponding PC?  In my opinion, no.  But you've got yours, and having
> a larger wallet helps support your opinions.
> 
> 

Time is money, the Mac saves time, the Mac saves you money.  B)
I mean, would your rather have a Yugo or an Audi?


Russ Taylor   (rtaylor @cie.uoregon.edu @honors.uoregon.edu)
Chairman and Sole Member of the Society of Creative Anarchists

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