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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:09:45 GMT
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- In <92206.135238ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:
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- >Because I read the subject of this thread "Macs COST too much". Of course I
- >could compare a VW Rabbit to a Corvette to proof that american cars are better
- >than german.
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- Your claim was not about cost, but about speed. You chose an expensive,
- top-of-the-line PC against the bottom-of-the-line Mac II to prove your
- point. Not even Mr. Moon has been inane enough to suggest that you can
- buy a flow-blown 486 for the same price as a IIsi.
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- What you really proved is this. Even when the bottom-of-the-line
- Mac II is compared to the top-of-the-line PC, using a benchmark written
- by a PC zealot (hence, undoubtedly, highly optimized for the PC and not
- optimized at all for the Macintosh), the difference in numbe-crunching
- performance is still only a factor of five. The Quadra, which is at
- least ten times faster than the IIsi, would undoubtedly blow your big
- blue socks off. (Actually, knowing the lengths that PC zealots will
- go to stack the cards in their favor, I wonder if you even bothered to
- install the floating-point unit in the IIsi.)
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- >No it just means I can`t afford a mac with the power of my PC.
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- No, it means that you can't afford a Mac that will run an artificial
- benchmark as fast as a PC for which the benchmark has been optimized.
- This is typical of PC users who mistake performance on some specific
- benchmark with actual computing power.
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