Warp wrote:
>   Does "typical office use" include things like opening and editing
> a 1600x1200 full color image for a powerpoint presentation?

Agreed. I think people way underestimate what's "typical" nowadays. Anyone 
who actually *uses* computers at work wouldn't be happy with a Plus these days.

I go to the dentist. While I stand there, they pull up my records, talk to 
the insurance company automatically to find out how much is covered and how 
much I'll owe. They take pictures of my broken tooth and from that the 
software generates a 3D CAD file describing the cap that needs to be built, 
annotated with clearances. They send that to the people who manufacture the 
cap by saying "yep, looks right", <click>. They plug the X-Ray receiver into 
the front of the PC and take x-rays, which they send to the specialist 
across town and to the insurance company to show the specialist what needs 
to be done and prove to the insurance company it was done. They schedule me 
to come back to get the cap put on, and a week before the appointment I get 
an SMS reminding me of the appointment along with an email. Which of these 
steps isn't typical for a modern dentist office? Which of these steps would 
a Mac Plus have no trouble with? Maybe finding a slot in the schedule of 
hundreds of patients going a year or more into the future, as long as you 
only wanted one person in the office able to see the schedule?

Alternately, compare what a Mac Plus can do to what an Apple ][ can do. 
Editing a 300K text file was completely beyond anything an Apple ][ could 
do. Yet, an Apple ][ could edit a 3K text file quite as easily and fast as a 
Mac Pro could.

Altho way back when, when Apple ][ was just starting to show its age, my 
boss pointed out that the Apple ][ could outperform by a factor of four or 
five the mainframe we had at the time. There just wasn't any I/O processors 
capable of reading a thousand input records a minute or printing 600 lines 
per minute, so we stuck with the NCR Century 50 we had until it melted. It 
doesn't help if you can calculate the report in 20 minutes instead of 200 
minutes if it's going to take you 20 hours instead of 2 hours to print them out.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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