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- From: ee_hflo@uxmail.ust.hk (Michael Lo Ho Fung)
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.115644.9215@uxmail.ust.hk>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 11:56:44 GMT
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- Iskandar Taib (ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec17.224200.22219@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> merrifie@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael C Merrifield) writes:
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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,
- : ^^^ Oh goody. Why not use go whole hog here and
- : use Windows 2.11? 3.1 is quite a bit faster
- : than 3.0.
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- : >Persuasion and Illustrator) and measured the performance of "real world
- : >functions" (such as opening a file, scrolling, running a macro, performing
- : >calculations, etc.).
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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.
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- Please state what is the hardware config. of 486.
- Once a 386 with fast VGA card and SCSI-2 harddisk can run most ms-windows
- application faster than a 486 with dump vga card and slow IDE HD.
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