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- From: sward+@CMU.EDU (David Reeve Sward)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
- Message-ID: <gf4ElH600iV4A39oMi@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 06:52:35 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.gf4ElH600iV4A39oMi
- Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- In-Reply-To: <9211231414.AA26779@TIS.COM>
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware: 23-Nov-92 486 vs. Mac
- Benchmarks by Theodore Lee@TIS.COM
- > Fascinating. I am finding it very hard to locate *any* published
- > cross-platform benchmarks that compare 486's to Macintosh's in
- > meaningfully comparable applications, such as wordprocessing. So far
- > I've only located two. Does anyone know about any others?
-
- Because benchmarks are bunk. They are handy for bragging when the
- <insert your favorite machine here> is benchmarked faster than the
- <insert your most hated machine here>; but there is no practical use for
- them no matter what is being "measured".
-