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- From: triantos@acsu.buffalo.edu (Nick B Triantos)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: RE-Win/NT
- Message-ID: <Bu7LH9.4ML@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 14:00:43 GMT
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- Organization: The University at Buffalo
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- In-Reply-To: Kaz.Karl@f1138.n261.z1.fidonet.org's message of 7 Sep 92 09:16:09 GMT
- Originator: triantos@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu
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- In article <715860088.F00001@blkcat.UUCP> Kaz.Karl@f1138.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Kaz Karl) writes:
-
- >Well, for the cost of your machine(assuming it's a Mac][ci), you could have a
- >486DX 50Mhz, 32Megs RAM and, say, a half Gig HD...that's the equal of a really
- >serious Quadra, except twice as fast and four times the basic memory and more
- >disk space...
- > I just bought a 386DX 33Mhz 8MegsRAM 336Meg HD with Trackball, Fax/Modem,
- >Math Co-Processor, and SVGA for a little over 2G's...that's more of a machine
- >right there than my Mac][ci which has 160MegHD, 5MegsRAM an '030, is 25Mhz, and
- >cost over twice as much( with a mere VGA...)
- > So obviously hardware cost isn't a factor if comparing the Mac to
- >Win/NT...unless you really want Mac to look bad...
-
- I don't want to start the eternally unsolved thread of which is better again,
- but, you seem to be missing the points that:
- (1) Clock speeds are not the correct way to benchmark how fast a computer
- really is. With pre-fetching and other niceties that the MC680x0's
- offer, I have not seen a 33MHz '486 _PERFORM_ as fast as my Mac. The
- '486 machines spend too much of their processing time dealing with a
- ridiculously out of date OS called DOS, and then a DOS program which
- pretends to offer a GUI for PCs called Windows.
- (2) The people who buy Macs spend money for the quality components which
- Apple uses, much like those expensive IBM brand PCs. They cost more,
- but everything is supposed to be compatible, and there are less problems
- down the road with the equipment. Saying you bought "...a 386DX ..."
- doesn't impress me, nor shall it ever. If I wanted a cheap computer, I
- could have bought some clone. I wanted a good computer, where a word
- processor doesn't include 4 disks of printer drivers, the File menu
- always has Save in the same place, and I don't need to own a single
- piece of equipment or software from the ultimate megacorporation for
- being unresponsive to industry guidelines, MicroSloth.
-
- Flames to /dev/null/ please. Sensible mail gladly accepted.
-
- Cheers!
- -Nick
-
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