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In article <4cea6i$4dt@khyber.ncc.up.pt>, pbv@oat.ncc.up.pt (Pedro
Baltazar Valconcelos) wrote:

~sidea guys (sidea8120@sidea.com) wrote:
~: i personally noticed a big difference in speed going from a win 95 P120 
~: 16-4x to a PPC 100 (pmac7500) 16-4x, like maybe 15 percent or more. I was 
~: actually surprised, but happy to see Apple get it right.
~
~  This is unfair for the P120: what MB did it have? what video
~board? what discs & controllers?
~ The PowerMac has a VRAM-based video board and SCSI discs, cd-rom
~so you should compare with a similarly equiped PC. The nice thing
~is you can buy _extremely_ fast VRAM-video cards (with an S3 968,
~or a Matrox, for example) and PCI SCSI adapters (Adaptec or Buslogic,
~to name two) and _sill_ spend less in the whole deal than the
~price of the PowerMac...
~  As to the brute-force processor speed, well just check 
~universal benchmarks, such as dhrystone, wheetstone, whatever.
~I think (can't be sure) the P120 is significally faster in all
~except maybe floating-point (I can't remember which is faster there).
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~Pedro Vasconcelos                      email: pbv@ncc.up.pt 
~Centro de Informatica da Universidade do Porto
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It's actually an extreamly fair comparison...

And the fact that the Macs do come with much nicer hardware just makes
them even better.

BTW... the PPC consistantly proves itself faster then Pentiums (I haven't
seen a benchmark that proves otherwise)  Now the P6... Well thats a whole
nother argument for which nobody can agree on.

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sdmeyers
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