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Article #257Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Eric Bennett
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 21:27
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 21:27
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In article <danpop.807309882@rscernix> Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes: >In <ericb.477.301E36BE@psu.edu> ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett) writes: >>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? I'm not sure that they are; there may just be some left over. My friend picked one up a few months ago (he sold his 68030 powerbook to trade up to the LC 475--and even made a slight profit) and it came with system 7.1 on it, which indicates that it had been sitting around for a long time... -Ericb@psu.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.cac.psu.edu!lure!ericb From: ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett) 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 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 21:27:31 GMT Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing Message-ID: <ericb.508.301E9C43@psu.edu> 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.477.301 NNTP-Posting-Host: lure.bmb.psu.edu X-Authinfo-User: emb121@psu.edu X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B]