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From: abrazel@iastate.edu (Christan Paul Hamann)
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Subject: Re: FIVE GOOD REASONS WHY IBM'S ARE BETTER THAN MACS
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:02:33 -0500
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This guy OBVIOUSLY knows what he is talking about!  That's why Ingram Labs
proved the PowerPC to be 38% faster on average than the equivalent Pentium
processor.  The only way his 64 MB PC's could be faster is if he is
running like 64 MB of virtual memory when he is running Photoshop on his 8
MB 7200.  I have a thorough knowledge of DOS and all versions of MS
Windows except NT, and I made the switch to the Mac about 3 years ago
because I got more speed for the money.  I believe this is still true.

In article <31685e02.5498255@news.earthlink.net>, hybridv, hybridv wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Apr 1996 09:42:11 GMT, vandal@netcom.com (_Vandal) wrote:
> 
> >>All studies and usage on both machines I have done - and about every
> >>benchmark I have run (including our own cross-platform app) show that the
> >>Macs are usually substantially faster than PC's... often a Mac one or two
> >>whole CLASSES below the PC can still beat it. 
> >>
> >>Like the 6100/66 that beat my friends P5/120. 1/2 the clock rate, fraction
> >>the cost, but 10-20% faster.
> 
> 
> ok so native FPU mode is faster on a MAC! who gives a shit.. no
> program fully utlizees it !... i use 7200,8500... blah blah at work
> with p-133 and a p-100.... the pcs are 2x-6x faster on every
> application for both machines... the all have 64 mb ram...and my p-100
> 
> is consinstanly faster then the mac132 in all aps... let that be
> photoshop, premiere, pagemaker,, blah blah blah.... not to mention
> macs are a PAIN in the ass to fix when a software crash happens...
> theres no real fucking way to figure out what goes on... a sloppy,
> slow gui floods the screen with minamle configureation... the standard
> 4x cd that comes with it wont read dual session cds,,, it sucks
> printing to a ethernetwork... and its SLOW!!!!! the pcs rip in all the
> shitty mac areas.... only one good reason to have a mac and that is
> for publishing any shit every place that does pro. output uses macs...
> so i need them to be compatable.... dont even start with soft
> windows...   the older monitors arnt even compatable with the new pci
> video boards.... blah blah blah ... there just targed for the lame ass
> out there that cant understand at least 25% of how a computer works...
> i had a mac freak come up to me once at my work and said "i heard SCSI
> is faster then PCI" >?????????? what the fuck does that mean.. kinda
> like my "fireplace is better then your rosegarden?" whatever.. and it
> happens that 85% of mac uses have this mentality about computers...
> ignorent... ignorent... since when is it bad to acutally know how a
> computer works to use it... would we say it was bad if a surgen said "
> i know how to cut with a scaple so i am a brain sergan? whatever.."
> and what the fuck does BOMBED mean? mac users all over the place say
> oh my system bombed out!. $$?@#?   it bombed? did somebody place C4 in
> your unupgradeable motherboard,case?   how about "locked" more like
> what actually happend....  well im tierd of being bitchy... and where
> is the pre-empitive multitasking OS for mac? ... please let me know...
> 
> 
> HybridV.

Chris Hamann
abrazel@iastate.edu