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Article #247Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Dan Pop
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 20:44
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 20:44
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In <ericb.477.301E36BE@psu.edu> ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett) writes: >In article <danpop.807232868@rscernix> Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes: > >>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... I don't think so. A 486/33 is a collector's item nowadays :-) But why is Apple still manufacturing these obsolete systems, instead of the shining PMac's? Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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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.destroy.microsoft Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!CERN.ch!rscernix!danpop From: Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ues5.cern.ch Message-ID: <danpop.807309882@rscernix> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #9 (NOV) References: <docjoe-2807950745230001@ip252.wilmington.de.interramp.com> <3vgaqc$4bv@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <3vgg2f$6mi@nnrp3.primenet.com> <danpop.807143070@rscernix> <rmcassid-3107951340170001@dante.eng.uci.edu> <danpop.807232868@rscernix> <ericb.477.301E36BE@psu.edu> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 20:44:42 GMT