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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:24:29 -0500
- From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Mac vs. PC (hardware comparison)
- In-Reply-To: <1992Dec16.163707.814@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- References: <1992Dec16.163707.814@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Ooh, neat argument.
- assumptions: a -> c
- prooof: b, a->c, :. c
-
- merrifie@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael C Merrifield) writes:
- > In response to some comments about the "inferior hardware" of the Macintosh:
- > 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.
-
- Hardware? Okay. (looks at study...)
-
- > 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.).
-
- This is not a test of a '040 versus a 486. This is a test of MacOS
- vs. Windows. Windows *is* *a* *dog*. You can't say that the pc
- hardware sucks because when you run windows on it and then run MacOS
- on a comperable Mac, the mac is much faster, because MacOS is much
- more efficient on the same hardware.
-
- > "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."
-
- Get a 486/50 EISA with an ATI graphics ultra. Find me a mac that can
- match speed for anywhere near double the price...
-
- > 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.
-
- If you want a high performace graphical computer, you buy and SGI. If
- you want a low to medium performance version of an 8 year old
- computer based on a outdated and dying 10 year old graphical operating
- model with enough high quality stable software to justify the purchace
- for at least another 3 years, the Macintosh is probably the way to go.
-
- If you want a medium performance computer that will run everything
- from a 13 year old 8 bit character mode os to an extremely modern 32
- bit graphical, protected mode, multithreaded, multitasking, virtual
- memory, microkernel based multiuser operating system (and no, i don't
- mean NT, though that might be able to fit that description above if
- you stretched it with Microsoft Marketting Toolkit :-) ) that is
- likely to be around into the next century, then a PC might not be a
- bad idea.
-
- If you want a modern graphical os that runs on modern hardware and is
- constantly being developped in that direction, buy a NeXT.
-
-
- -- faisal jawdat | "Certainly the game is rigged.
- email: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu | Don't let that stop you;
- if mail handler barfs | if you don't bet, you can't win."
- fj05@andrew.cmu.edu | -Lazarus Long
-