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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!ryani
From: ryani@geom.umn.edu (ryani)
Subject: Re: LET APPLE KNOW HOW YOU FEEL!
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References: <319brj$q0b@mozz.unh.edu>,<evidenceCty2HM.F9B@netcom.com> <1994Aug3.145406.24699@martha.utcc.utk.edu> <dischner.776297937@teal>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 03:29:51 GMT
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dischner@teal.csn.org (Bob Dischner) writes:
>>>Plus, Powermac's are 2-3 times the price of comparable PC's and run much
>>>slower... Windows alone costs $329.00 for the powermac, but only $49.00
>>>for IBM.
Actually, the comparisons I've seen are better done than this and done not
perfectly on performance but on price-performance against similarily
outfitted pentiums. The PPC powermac 7100 came out ahead in the test,
the 6100 came out about equal, but the 8100 was way overpriced compared
to the pentium.
Also, the reason Win-doze costs $329.00 for a Powermac is because it's
not just Windoze, it's a PC emulator which runs Windoze and DOS.
Although, on the down side, it's only a 486-25 speed 286 emulator.
>I HATE Apple. The company that monoplizes schools-without MY interjection.
>The company that unfairly (And patheticcly) tries to trash PC's(Seen the
>Pentium to PowerPC comp. Ad<Shows Pentium running DOS 5's edit.com, and
>PowerPC runing big ol MM apps>RIP!) I will always despise Apple, and I
>hope they NEVER get Doom(Be strong id!)
Seriously, I've read both sides of this debate, and I've noticed that
in PC user magazines, the Pentium comes out slightly ahead, and in
Mac user magazines, the PowerPC comes out slightly ahead. I scrutinized
this and finally realized what the difference was: in the comparisons
where the PowerPC came out ahead, it was running software that was
_originally_ developed on a Mac, and ported to Intel, and where the Pentium
came out ahead was products which were, again, _originally_ written for
IBM compatibles and later ported to Macintosh.
I, for one, am sick of partisan bickering between Mac and PC users who
are already biased in their opinions before they look at the facts.
PS: after long consideration and waffling, I've decided against getting
a Pentium this year because of the physics problem: people with Macs
ran at _significantly_ lower speeds for years, so when the PPC came out,
the 680x0 emulator could run at about the speed Macs were already getting.
Intel has the problem that their CISC architecture is TOO DAMN FAST :)
which is going to cause a roadblock when they hit the CISC wall, which
is rapidly approaching. Electrons only move at a certain speed, you
know. I decided, instead, on a Powermac 7100, and am really bummed that
DOOM wasn't coming out for as far as I can tell, years, but the release
of Marathon is making my life a WHOLE lot more interesting.
Peace, friends. -- ryani
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