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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Joe Ragosta
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 20:30
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In article <40o3vq$t9d@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>, PJ
<pjuang@hawking.nhgs.tec.va.us> wrote:

>       $1700 is a mite bit expensive for a P75 with only 8 Meg of RAM and 
> 500 Meg HD.....I think you should be looking at $1600-$2000 for a P75
> with 16 MB RAM and 720 Meg HD, depending on whether an unknown company 
> or a real company builds it.
> 
> >...and you can get a PMac 5200 for about that- with more RAM and a bigger 
> >monitor.
> >
>        One of those 603e based Macs?  Don't they have the "brute force"
> solution to the emulator, because it supposedly ran extremely slow - so
> they doubled the cache?

Who cares? What matters is how it performs. The 5200 will be comparable to
a low end P75 in speed. A better choice would be the 7200/90 which will
run a few dollars more ($1800 w/o monitor, so let's say $2100 with the
same cheap monitor you're planning to put in your $2000 PC), but will run
rings around your P75.

-- 
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 14 Aug 1995 20:30:25 GMT
Organization: Graver Chemical
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