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- From: pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (price carl wayne)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.064658.29178@CS.ORST.EDU>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 06:46:58 GMT
- Article-I.D.: CS.1992Aug28.064658.29178
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- >>To start, a Macintosh is by no means more powerful than a PC clone, I work
- >>on both (IIci and a 486/33) and the PC will blow the Mac out of the water
- >>in speed and performance. I have not had the chance to use a quadra yet,
- >>but then I guess my pockets aren't deep enough to afford one.
-
- >Okay. Let's measure performance based on some simple, but meaningful,
- >task. Now, insert a floppy disk into your computer and change its
- >name from "A:" to "Price Carl Wayne's floppy." Time yourself to see
- >how long it takes. I'll do the same thing. You have a decided advantage,
- >since my Mac is not here at work and it will take me a few hours to get
- >home. I'll be generous enough to include that time to my benchmark. :-)
- >
- >Well, if you think that benchmark is unfair, how about we try this one:
- >create an icon that you can click on to simultaneously launch several
- >programs and documents, possibly located on several disks (even on
- >a network).
-
- >Performance is not just how many many MHz your processor executes.
-
- Both of the above tasks are easily performed on my 486/33. The renaming
- of the disk took me under a minute, and the the creating of an icon to
- launch several tasks simultaneously is simpler on my PC than on my Mac
- (Yes I do use both and have system 7). It seems you didn't read my
- whole post well, or that you are not familiar with PCs anymore. I did
- say that OS/2 was my OS.
-
- >>Now, let's get into the cost thing. To buy a 486/50 with a fast 200MB
- >>SCSI drive (yes, most high end PC do use SCSI for performance), 16MB of
- >>ram (70ns), SVGA monitor (1024x768 w/256 colors max resolution), 14" monitor
- >> OS and a mouse would cost me $2500 (from a local store, this is not even
- >>going to the mail order places where I could shave off around $500
-
- >And how much would it cost you to get a PC that can *use* that 16M
- >without limitations such as expanded memory, extended memory, upper
- >memory, or segmentation. Better budget at least $10M for your own
- >R&D department to do what IBM and Microsoft haven't been able to do.
- >Hm, $4000 vs. $10,002,500, and you still say the Macintosh is not cheap? :-)
-
- I've got that capability all ready, I'm using 8MB now and going to move
- to 20MB soon, all without any of the limitations you mentioned above.
- BTW I also have dynamic virtual memory that starts at a minimum (I have
- mine set to 6MB) and expands and contracts as needed. So I'm still at
- $2500 vs. $4000.
-
- --
- Carl W. Price * * Work keeps us from three evils: *
- Computer Engineering Student * * boredom, vice, and need. *
- Oregon State University * * *
- pricec@prism.cs.orst.edu * * ---Voltaire *
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