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Woodrow Shin (hunter@news.dorsai.org) wrote:
[snipt]
: 	Sounds very affordable, there must be a tremendous amounts of 
: tradeoffs though.  For $5000+ now you can get a 9500/132.  If Power 
: Computing is selling the same processor for half that, in just a couple 
: of months, then there must be a compromise somewhere.


The 9500 has 6 PCI slots, 3 (4?) drive bays, expandable to 1 gigabyte of 
RAM, and is the early-bird in the high-end desktop market that the P6 
will be competing in. It's a seller's market for Apple and they are 
milking it for all that they can get.

There's also the issue of shortage of faster 604 CPU's, as well as the 
difference in R&D overhead between Power Computing and Apple. NOt to 
mention the Mind-Share that Apple has. Look at the price of Power 100's: 
$1699 sans monitor. Close-out sales on 7100/80's are still as much as 
$1000 more. Same basic system, more software, 33% faster, $1000 less.

: : A game-developer/player's dream machine, fer shure.

: 	It wouldn't be my dream machine, until they get out a large 
: amount of software support for it.

A 132Mhz 604 machine runs most 68K software faster than the fastest 68K 
Mac ever shipped. It should run most non-Sound-Blaster Windows and DOS 
software at a good speed, also.

: : Not bad for business use, either.

: 	I have to agree with you there.  It's a great work machine.

We will see what the pricing actually is. I'm hoping that I'm correct.

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