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- From: storm@ar.ar.com.au (Storm/Cydonia)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Power PCs vs Pentium
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 12:11:59 +1000
- Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here.
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- Patrick Leung (pleung@cs.buffalo.edu) wrote:
-
- : I've haven't been keeping the trend with PC technology lately.
- : However, I have the feeling that Power PCs didn't market any where near as
- : well as intended in comparison to the Pentium.
- : Intel really spent a lot of money to push its Pentium CPU into the
- : market, and I think Intel has succeeded much more over the Power PC.
-
- : I may be wrong, but I think there are more people choosing Pentiums as
- : their new PCs rather than the Power PC if they have a choice.
-
- They don't have a choice. People aren't buying the fastest PC they can
- get for their money, they're buying the PC that runs Windoze 95. And
- that ain't a PowerPC.
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