Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 02:11:00 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - G3 Ad Leads to Potential Mac Convert Keyword: Advocacy, Why Macs Are Better Jason Anthony Guy (as a long-time evangelista, I just had to send this in. it's quoted from various conversations (both personal and public) i had with an associate. I have his permission to post this here.) "After running nothing but WinTel for the past 15 years, I am beginning to seriously consider buying my first Mac.... [the reason] was ENTIRELY that new commercial. The first I ever heard of the G3 was on TV and I read literally dozens of magazines every month. Apple should place the same kind of ads in Win mags. [...] "I am a fairly new web designer. I did my first site about 27 months ago. I signed my first commercial client about 15 months ago. I presently have 4 clients for whom I am doing major sites that include considerable graphic work as well as custom programming. "All my clients send me images that were originally used in their print work. Most of my web work involves taking a company from the purely print world into the web and then expanding from there. Almost all their print work was done on Macs. That is true across all the companies I deal with. I have used ConversionsPlus from DataVis to read Mac Jaz' and Zips and so on but it is not the same as working in native format. The fonts are almost always different and there are differences between PC Photoshop and Mac Photoshop. "Also, my Win95B box is much less stable than I would like... It is a phenomenon called "OS decay" and is a well known occurrence on the Win side. I understand that the Mac OS is more stable than Win95. "My frustration is that I can always manage to get my PC working again but I spend way too much time futzing with my computer and way too little time doing the work I was hired to do! [...] "Lastly, is the speed issue. I understand that a G3 screams in native Mac code and goes more than adequately fast in PC emulation. I also understand that there is a new version of VPC due out in the next month or so and it will run Win95 software even faster. So why not ad a Mac to my stable? I will continue to use the PC stations that I still have. I am not tossing anything in the trash, just adding a new upper end. If I buy it, the G3 will be my premier design station."