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Anyone seen the Motorola adds about an Ingram Laboratory performance study?
Look on page 22 & 23 of the July 92 issue of Byte, for example.

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        "Recent Studies Reveal 25MHz Is Now Faster Than 50MHz"

"Ingram Benchmark Results, March 1992 - 25 and 33 MHz 040 Macintosh Quadra
Outruns the 486 at 33 and 50 MHz."

"This revelation is brought to you by the Apple Macintosh and the Motorola
68040."  The add goes on to say that Ingram Labs (an independent PC testing
firm) compared the newest 040 Macs (Quadra 950 and 700) to several of the
quickest 486 Windows PCs running the most popular applications for both
Macintosh and Windows 3.0 (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Wingz, PageMaker,
Persuasion and Illustrator) and measured the performance of "real world
functions" (such as opening a file, scrolling, running a macro, performing
calculations, etc.).

The results are shown below...

* Performance Index
0------1------2------3------4------5------6------7------8------9------10

33MHz 040
Mac Quadra 950 ----------------------------------------------------9.7

25MHz 040
Mac Quadra 700 ---------------------------------------------------9.3

ALR Business Veisa
486/50 -------------------------------------------------8.1

Compaq Deskpro
486/33 -------------------------------------6.5

IBM PS/2 95 XP
486/33 ------------------------------------6.2

DELL 433P
486/33 ---------------------------------5.9

* "Performance Index is the measured result relative to the slowest machine
  tested (a 286-based IBM PS/1 running Windows). For example, Mac Quadra 950
  is 9.7 times faster than the Performance Index; the Dell 433P is 5.9 times
  faster."

"No surprise, really.  Macintosh and its graphical user interface were designed
from the start around the 68000's true 32-bit architecture.  Naturally, it
outperforms computers powered by an extended 8-bit architecture running a
character-based operating system with a tacked-on GUI."

This is not another "closed minded" Mac user's attempt to save the world
from the wages of PC use.  Certainly IBM/clones have a niche in the world of
personal computing. My intent is to point out that if you want a high
performance graphical computer, I think the Macintosh is the way to go.