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|> Fascinating.  I am finding it very hard to locate *any* published
|> cross-platform benchmarks that compare 486's to Macintosh's in
|> meaningfully comparable applications, such as wordprocessing.  So far
|> I've only located two.  Does anyone know about any others?
|> 
|> The first one I found is in PC Magazine for May 12, 1992, which
|> compares a $7,000 Quadra 700 to a $9,275 Dell PowerLine 450DE
|> (80486-50 cpu).  The latter has a 4MB cache in its EISA controller!
|> (The article says the Dell is running Windows, but the article is not
|> at all clear whether the applications are Windows applications or DOS
|> applications>.

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|> in the Oct. PCWorld.  The price/performance ratios of the 24
|> platforms, not counting the PS/2, but counting the Mac, have a 2:1
|> range, whereas the prices have a 3:1 range. (If you plot price vs.
|> performance you see very little correlation.) 21 of the 486's have a
|> worse p-p-ratio than the Mac, and it is only 12% worse than the best.
|> (The only 486 in the 24 faster than the Mac was only 5% faster but 30%
|> more expensive; nearly half of them were more expensive than the Mac)

[ditto]
|> 
|> Ted Lee <tmplee@TIS.COM>


I would like to note, however, one may purchase a Dell 450DE w/ 32bit
SCSI controller & 230MB HD for about $4200 now...

- mike
cs123052@cs.brown.edu