[P1] Blatantly false statements on list

[Brian Pearce]

> The Performa 6400 however ... ugh. Difficult to open/clean/repair, 
> parts that don't work with any other Mac, technologies built-in that 
> Apple later abandoned. It was a perfectly OK machine if you were a) a 
> light-duty user and b) planned to replace it in due course (say 3-5 
> years). But for serious users it was a dog.

The Performa line was always meant to be the "consumer" rather than the 
"professional" model; in many ways, it was the forerunner of the 
strategy that brings us the iMac and iBook, but not executed with the 
innovative product design and pricing that have made those models a 
success. (I believe there was a third category, the "LC" model, for the 
educational market.) So a Performa probably wouldn't have been too bad 
for a light-duty user.

My father-in-law had a Performa 575 for a good number of years before I 
gave him my first generation iBook; any problems he had with it were 
completely of his own making. (It's now sitting in my garage, waiting 
for the call to duty.)

BRIAN/bpearce at cloud9.net