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Article #1285Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware
From: Deacon (jeremy mayes)
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 17:26
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 17:26
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In article <410fu8$68q@meaddata.meaddata.com>, Christopher C. Wood <christw@meaddata.com> wrote: >In article <40tmjq$uo2@navajo.gate.net>, cirby@news.gate.net (Chad Irby) writes: >|> Brandon Hines (Soleil@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu) wrote: > >|> : I have read things like this for the past few months, but have yet to >|> : find a vendor to give me a price on a PMac that compares to a P5 >|> : system. > >|> Uhhh... pick up the phone, call directory assistance, ask for the local >|> number for Power Computing (an Austin company). Ask them for a price on >|> a 100 MHz PPC 601. Then call Dell and ask them for the price on a 100 >|> MHz Pentium with the same setup. > >|> Comparable, to say the least... > >No, you'd need a 120MHz Pentium to compare with the 100 MHz PC, >because the Pentium has to run Windows... I've heard that OS/2 might >be a little better. > >Chris >-- >Speaking only for myself, of course. >Chris Wood christw@lexis-nexis.com ChrisCWood@aol.com How is a pentium user forced to run windows...they could say run BSDUnix, Linux, WinNT. All of which will give better performance than a PowerMac. -- Jeremy Mayes jlmayes@midway.uchicago.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!woodlawn!jlmayes From: jlmayes@woodlawn.uchicago.edu (Deacon (jeremy mayes)) Subject: Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware X-Nntp-Posting-Host: midway.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <DDKJ4A.Fq4@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Reply-To: jlmayes@midway.uchicago.edu Organization: uchicago strn fanclub References: <stephenkDD9Ay3.H7D@netcom.com> <40tjes$97f@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <40tmjq$uo2@navajo.gate.net> <410fu8$68q@meaddata.meaddata.com> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 17:26:33 GMT