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Ronald E Engel wrote:
> I�m trying to determine which Mac machine will best serve my needs and
> 
> The applications I am most interested in running (that don�t work so > Pagemaker            Photoshop   Freehand
> Netscape Gold        Quark       Pagemill
> 
> The two dealers I talked to recommended:
> Performa 6400 and the PowerMac 7500/100
> (I�m perfectly willing to buy a machine other than these two, but 

The 7500 does have better graphics than the 6400, but the processor is
much slower.

There is another option though:  for our lab I managed to convince my
advisor to get a 7600/132.  At that point in time it was about $100 more
than the 6400/180; Apple just dropped the list price on the 7600 to
under $2000.  The 7600 has decent built in video (and you can upgrade
the 2 MB video RAM to 4 MB fairly cheaply).  The hard drive, while
smaller, is a 1.2 gig fast-SCSI drive and quite a bit faster than the 2
gig drive on the 6400.  The 604 chip toasts the 601/603 in the other
computers, and runs at 3x instead of 4x the motherboard speed (i.e. is
more efficient).  I would strongly recommend at least doubling the
physical RAM the box comes with the 32 megs or more (64+ if you can
afford it), but that goes for any box that you'd run the applications
you mention on.

Of course at this point you may want to consider waiting 2-3 weeks until
Apple announces their new product line...you could find something better
and the prices on the old models are nearly guaranteed to fall even
farther.