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- From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: PC is faster than Mac? Myth or Truth?
- Message-ID: <D2150035.lv6jlc@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 00:48:53 GMT
- Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Organization: Peirce Software
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- In article <1992Dec20.124013.998@sc2a.unige.ch> (comp.sys.mac.hardware), kanala@sc2a.unige.ch writes:
- >
- > The other story is that actually, the PC is really faster than a Mac you buy
- > for the same price. No Mac can compete with a 66 MHz 486. I bought a Quadra,
- > anyway, but there are people to whom raw performance is more important than
- > System 7. If one has to justify the hardware expense by amount of heavy
- > calculus, it would be difficult to buy a Mac.
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- If raw speed is your only criteria why in the world would you buy
- a 486 based anything? Go for RISC. Get a nice HP or DEC Alpha based
- box and really hum along. Of course you'll be stuck with using Unix.
- Of well, life isn't perfect - yet.
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