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- From: terjer@ifi.unit.no (Terje Rydland)
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
- Message-ID: <terjer-231292160639@majestix.ifi.unit.no>
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- Organization: IfI, UNIT-AVH
- References: <Bz2C4s.FqE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <BzF6Bv.3n8@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Dec17.224200.22219@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <BzoBtM.6Jv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 15:07:12 GMT
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- In article <BzoBtM.6Jv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
- ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1992Dec17.224200.22219@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> merrifie@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael C Merrifield) writes:
- >
- > >
- > > "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,
- > ^^^ Oh goody. Why not use go whole hog here and
- > use Windows 2.11? 3.1 is quite a bit faster
- > than 3.0.
-
- The comparision is quite old. 3.1 didn't exist when the test was done.
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- > What else was in those machines? They probably put Trident cards in the
- > clones and used (slow) IBM VGA in the PS/2s.
-
- Standard machines, straight out of the box.
- Just be happy they didn't include the time it takes to set up the machines!
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- Terje Rydland
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