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Article #3161Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Damir Smitlener
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 21:23
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 21:23
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PA Williamson wrote: > > In article <312A6F21.37BB@surfusa.com>, Eb Farris <efarris@surfusa.com> wrote: > > > If a 486 owner wants to upgrade his system, he can buy a Pentium Motherboard > > for $199 - with Pipeline Burst Cache SRAM on board. The Pentium75 CPU is $120. > > Ain't no way, no how, you can buy ANYTHING but a junk garbage trash > 'piece of crap' motherboard for 199 bucks. Sure, some no-name import > thing, but show me a *fast* Intel motherboard for $199 and I'll take two > of um. Opening up an old issue of Computer Currents I see a local dealer selling Intel Pentium motherboards starting at $209. So he was off by ten bucks. And Intel makes neither the fastest, cheapest or most reliable motherboards; you can more bang for your buck from folks like ASUS and SuperMicro, which are name brands in their own right. ------------------------ Damir Smitlener damir@mindpsring.com gt7092d@prism.gatech.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: Damir Smitlener <damir@mindspring.com> 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: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 16:23:44 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <312B8D60.1A096E5F@mindspring.com> References: <4cf46j$1ev4@hopi.gate.net> <312A6F21.37BB@surfusa.com> <philw-2002962010350001@philw.users.xplor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: damir.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i586)