Re: Do I need a Pentium II 266mhz ?

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From: *hwee
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 00:00

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On 30 Jul 1997 17:38:17 GMT, hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Mark Hahn)
wrote:

>: > I want fast access on the internet and play games, do I need the high
>: > speed computer ?
>
>: Try a mid-level Mac OS machine with a fast 603e (e.g., 225 MHz Mac 6500)
>: or one of the 180 - 200 mHz 604 Macs (e.g., Mac 7300). Both have speed to
>: burn and will let you do anything on the Internet you might care to do.
>: For games, obviously the faster the better.
>
><snicker>  needless to say, noone outside of the Church of the Mac
>would claim that these mid-range PPC chips are faster than a PII/266.
>
>regards, mark hahn.
>--
>operator may differ from spokesperson.	hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu
>					http://neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu/~hahn/
Then again if you buy the mac there won't be any decent games to run.
And the only good ones will be games ported from the PC a year after
they first came out.  Like Diablo, warcraft, warcraft 2, etc.
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From: *hwee@juno.com
Subject: Re: Do I need a Pentium II 266mhz ?
Date: 1997/07/30
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