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- Subject: Macs are too cheap!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.065137.1@vax1.umkc.edu>
- From: tmaehl@vax1.umkc.edu
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:51:37 GMT
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- >> In <714823281.F00001@blkcat.UUCP> Kaz.Karl@f1138.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Kaz Karl) writes:
- >>
- >> >Oh, be real...Perhaps you can buy an si for $2500, but that
- >> >clunky machine is the equivilant of the 396SX I just got for
- >> >a client for six hundred new...
-
- Not that its really a fair comparison, but I found the following
- two examples to be informative:
-
- a) In a review of the windows version of PhotoShop (Byte, July issue?)
- the Quadra 700 + 950 were about twice as fast as a 50Mhz 486 Compaq when
- performing filtering for example. Don't have it in front of me right
- now so I can't give you figures...but they provide numbers and it
- was like 17 secs on an 950 and 35 seconds on a 486/50.
-
- So on the high end, macs are at least competitive :-)
-
- and b) In this weeks PCWeek:
- "PC Week evaluated the new release of Design/IDEF on three platforms:
- Windows 3.1 on a 33MHz 486 with 12M bytes of RAM, OS/2 2.0 on a 16MHZ
- 386 with 10M bytes of RAM, and System 7 on a Macintosh Plus with 2.5M
- bytes of RAM. The OS/2 machine was used to run the Windows verions of
- the program in "seamless Windows" mode and exhibited no apparent
- problems; both the Windows and Macintosh versions of the program
- installed easily and operated smoothly, but a fast machine is
- strongly recommended..."
-
-
- Let us restate this: They compared a 486/33 Windows machine with 10M
- of ram to a *Mac Plus*!! with 2.5M.
-
- **** AND BOTH RAN SMOOTHLY ****
-
- Now tell me one more time that an LCII is comparable to a 386sx
- running Windows?? HA! Macs don't cost too much, they are the
- cheapest platform around! Ultimately, if they cost too much,
- no one would buy them. Since Apple is the single largest PC vendor,
- -- dispite having a propriatary hardware/software platform -- Macs
- are *obviously* not too expensive.
-
- On one final note, I loved the post by the gentleman several days
- ago who wrote about his "accelerated windows" that could do
- 1280x780x256, but that he ran at 16 colors (thats *4* bits for
- those of you who are counting) because it was too slow at
- 256 (8 bit), and that oh yeah, he could do 24bit at 640x480 so
- macs had nothing on him. (He was boasting about this you'll recall.)
-
- Tell me again?? **Accelerated** viedo, and he has to run in 4 bit
- mode because 8 bit is too slow?? Hows that about an LCII being
- slower than an 386sx again?? Let's put his accelerated video
- in 24bit mode and compare again :-)
-
- Jonathan - tmaehl@vax1.umkc.edu
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