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In article <01bccc01$e6074140$e87218d2@MohdAzli>, "Az"
<mabzzyya@pacific.net.sg> wrote:

<Hi......
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<I am a PC user all my life..........Currently interested in converting to
<Mac.....
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<Any advice on the hardware i should get.......is appreciated.
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<Need something in theline of Pentium -120 system running on Win95....
<Which Mac version (CPU) and OS would be the equivalent??????
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<thanks in advance

Az, wait for the Gossamer Macs due in mid-November. They will be much
faster than the current crop of Macs and prices begin at $2000 (without
monitor). Running Mac software, they will have CPU performance equivalent
to a 350 or 400Mhz 604e, and much faster than a 300Mhz Pentium II (this
is from Byte Benchmarks with Photoshop functions, which are the only Byte
benchmarks I've seen directly comparing 604e performance with Pentium IIs). 
From what I have researched, you will also be able to use Virtual PC and 
have performance more or less equal to a Pentium 100 or Pentium 120 when 
running Windows 95/DOS software (that do not use active X).

If you want to spend less, and spend it now, I would buy a 604 (very
hard to find since they stopped production long ago) or 604e system 
since most of those can be upgraded to a faster CPU, while most 603e 
systems can't be. Models to consider are the 7300 and Umax J700 (I think
stock on the Powercenter Pro 180 ran out). Still, a 180Mhz or 200Mhz 
604e will cost at least $1500 and will be 1/2 or 1/3 the speed of 
the slowest Gossamer Macs so why not wait.

Tai