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- From: merrifie@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael C Merrifield)
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:42:00 GMT
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- Anyone seen the Motorola adds about an Ingram Laboratory performance study?
- Look on page 22 & 23 of the July 92 issue of Byte, for example.
-
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-
- "Recent Studies Reveal 25MHz Is Now Faster Than 50MHz"
-
- "Ingram Benchmark Results, March 1992 - 25 and 33 MHz 040 Macintosh Quadra
- Outruns the 486 at 33 and 50 MHz."
-
- "This revelation is brought to you by the Apple Macintosh and the Motorola
- 68040." The add goes on to say that Ingram Labs (an independent PC testing
- firm) compared the newest 040 Macs (Quadra 950 and 700) to several of the
- quickest 486 Windows PCs running the most popular applications for both
- Macintosh and Windows 3.0 (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Wingz, PageMaker,
- Persuasion and Illustrator) and measured the performance of "real world
- functions" (such as opening a file, scrolling, running a macro, performing
- calculations, etc.).
-
- The results are shown below...
-
- * Performance Index
- 0------1------2------3------4------5------6------7------8------9------10
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- 33MHz 040
- Mac Quadra 950 ----------------------------------------------------9.7
-
- 25MHz 040
- Mac Quadra 700 ---------------------------------------------------9.3
-
- ALR Business Veisa
- 486/50 -------------------------------------------------8.1
-
- Compaq Deskpro
- 486/33 -------------------------------------6.5
-
- IBM PS/2 95 XP
- 486/33 ------------------------------------6.2
-
- DELL 433P
- 486/33 ---------------------------------5.9
-
- * "Performance Index is the measured result relative to the slowest machine
- tested (a 286-based IBM PS/1 running Windows). For example, Mac Quadra 950
- is 9.7 times faster than the Performance Index; the Dell 433P is 5.9 times
- faster."
-
- "No surprise, really. Macintosh and its graphical user interface were designed
- from the start around the 68000's true 32-bit architecture. Naturally, it
- outperforms computers powered by an extended 8-bit architecture running a
- character-based operating system with a tacked-on GUI."
-
- This is not another "closed minded" Mac user's attempt to save the world
- from the wages of PC use. Certainly IBM/clones have a niche in the world of
- personal computing. My intent is to point out that if you want a high
- performance graphical computer, I think the Macintosh is the way to go.
-
-