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

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From: johnson s
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 19:30

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Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:

>In <ericb.477.301E36BE@psu.edu> ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett) writes:

>>In article <danpop.807232868@rscernix> Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:
>>
>>>Glad you asked.  The cheapest Mac, a Performa 475 (Trinitron monitor and
>>>keyboard included) costs SF 1290 (a little bit more than $1000).  There 
>>>is no PC here that can match this price (the cheapest ones are above
>>>SF 1500, with a crappy monitor), yet...
>>
>>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 doubt very much that Apple is still manufactoring Perf 475's.  More
likely this is either old inventory or they are cannablizing much older
inventory (perhaps Centris's or Quadras) and re-using them in Perf 475s.

			S. Johnson

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 4 Aug 1995 19:30:51 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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