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

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From: Eric Bennett
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 14:14

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In article <danpop.807232868@rscernix> Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:

>In <rmcassid-3107951340170001@dante.eng.uci.edu> rmcassid@uci.edu (Robert Cassidy) writes:

>>In article <danpop.807143070@rscernix>, Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
>>
>>> There are lots of Mac's in the shops in Geneva, but (almost) everybody
>>> is ignoring them and buying PC's.  How does this fact fit into your
>>> picture.  I guess Geneva must be a fairly atypical case :-)
>>
>>I guess so. What are the prices of these systems in Geneva - it's not
>>exactly known to be a cheap place for US products.
>> 
>Glad you asked.  The cheapest Mac, a Performa 475 (Trinitron monitor and
>keyboard included) costs SF 1290 (a little bit more than $1000).  There 
>is no PC here that can match this price (the cheapest ones are above
>SF 1500, with a crappy monitor), yet...

Hehehe... a Performa 475?  25 mhz 68040 (or is it a 68LC040?)?  The 
PC equivalent is about a 486/33... shouldn't be too hard to come close to the 
Performa's price...

-Ericb@psu.edu

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 14:14:22 GMT
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