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

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From: Anthony D. Tribelli
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 18:12

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sdmeyers (smee@iquest.net) wrote:
: 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?
:
: It's actually an extreamly fair comparison...

The comparison is not fair since there is NO STANDARD P5-120 system. You 
can compare a low-end P5-120 system against a 7500 and get very different 
results than if you had used a high-end P5-120 system.

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

PCs come with whatever hardware YOU specify. You can specify inexpensive
stuff or nice stuff. 

Tony
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Tony Tribelli
adtribelli@acm.org

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