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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Portable Mac vs STACY
Message-ID: <45e9a2bc.71d0@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Sep 89 18:51:00 GMT
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In article <45da4392.14a1f@force.UUCP> covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes:
 >So, the Spectgre is NOT 'an interesting curiosity'!!
 >
 >I just wish that the Spectre could print out at 300 dpi on my SLM804. It can
 >do 144 dpi though, which is something. And not many Mac users have Atari
 >laser printers anyway.

But you've just lent weight to the opposing side, Richard.  David Small is
a warlock-class hacker.  But the GCR is not a Mac.  It is neat.  It is cheap.
It lets an ST owner glimpse much of the Mac world.  But it won't be a serious
Mac alternative.  

Look, someone who wanted to run Macintosh software, who didn't already own a
Mac or ST, who didn't have Big Dollars to spend but could afford a GCR+Stacey,
will (I'll bet my last floppy disk) 9 times out of 10 buy a Mac Plus instead.
I know I would, if that criteria matched my situation.  Someone who wants &
can afford a >>portable<< Mac will BUY a portable Mac.  Only those want a
portable Mac AND to whom every penny truly matters AND who perhaps are not
completely informed or like living on the edge MAY go for Atari's "solution".

The backlash of frustrated would-be Mac-users with their not-quite-Macs aka
Staceys w/ GCRs would probably crisp what little U.S. presence Atari still
has, anyway.

 >I think that the STacy/GCR combination will be a big seller!!! At 1/3 the
 >price of a real Laptop Mac, it will cleanup!!!

Cleanup WHAT for Pete's sake?  Atari's act?  Gee, I know I'm coming across
like a personal attack on you, your love for Atari, etc.  Sorry, I don't
mean to.  I just word-associate "doubt" when I hear "Atari" these days.

(I know: you're a Cubs fan too, right?  Oops, just kidding! :)

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