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Article #2726Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Robert Salasidis
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 01:27
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 01:27
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Curt Eggemeyer wrote: > > >And by the way the 604 is a somewhere between a Pentium and a Pentium > >Pro in speed (excluding the newest Pentiums which at 166MHz do gain some > >advantage). This is assuming that the Pentium Pro is running 32 bit > >apps (ie Spec95 benchmarks etc). > > The Pentium Pro's maybe faster in some respect, but they don't compete > with the powerPC chips when it comes to production costs. In the end > Intel will have to reduce their massive transistor count if they hope > to remain competitive with the other cpu producers. Intel makes 40 cents on each dollar of sales. The price of their processors is where it is because that is what intel can get without sacrificing market share. Their main advantage over other manufacturers is volume which has a way of decreasing costs.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.mcgill.ca!news From: Robert Salasidis <salasidis@medcor.mcgill.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 20:27:19 -0500 Organization: Salasoft Inc. Message-ID: <30F5B8F7.20B7@medcor.mcgill.ca> References: <30F1D5A5.637A@medcor.mcgill.ca> <nelsoni.821198907@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> <30F35257.7DCC@medcor.mcgill.ca> <4d3fu9$2t2@eraserhead.jpl.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: g-02.das.mcgill.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4 (Win95; I)