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

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From: Dave Glue
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 05:46

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hunter@news.dorsai.org (Woodrow Shin) wrote:

>	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.

That $5000 is a _loaded_ Power Mac 9500, remember.  I think with a
2gig hard drive, 16 megs of ram, 6 PCI slots, etc.  Look at Apples
8500 series for a more accurate pricing example that 604 machines will
follow.

>: 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.

And custom hardware for graphics.

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