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- From: cs123052@cs.brown.edu (Michael Lee)
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.185849.1307@cs.brown.edu>
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- Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept.
- References: <9211231414.AA26779@TIS.COM>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:58:49 GMT
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- |> Fascinating. I am finding it very hard to locate *any* published
- |> cross-platform benchmarks that compare 486's to Macintosh's in
- |> meaningfully comparable applications, such as wordprocessing. So far
- |> I've only located two. Does anyone know about any others?
- |>
- |> The first one I found is in PC Magazine for May 12, 1992, which
- |> compares a $7,000 Quadra 700 to a $9,275 Dell PowerLine 450DE
- |> (80486-50 cpu). The latter has a 4MB cache in its EISA controller!
- |> (The article says the Dell is running Windows, but the article is not
- |> at all clear whether the applications are Windows applications or DOS
- |> applications>.
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- [stuff deleted]
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- |> in the Oct. PCWorld. The price/performance ratios of the 24
- |> platforms, not counting the PS/2, but counting the Mac, have a 2:1
- |> range, whereas the prices have a 3:1 range. (If you plot price vs.
- |> performance you see very little correlation.) 21 of the 486's have a
- |> worse p-p-ratio than the Mac, and it is only 12% worse than the best.
- |> (The only 486 in the 24 faster than the Mac was only 5% faster but 30%
- |> more expensive; nearly half of them were more expensive than the Mac)
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- [ditto]
- |>
- |> Ted Lee <tmplee@TIS.COM>
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-
- I would like to note, however, one may purchase a Dell 450DE w/ 32bit
- SCSI controller & 230MB HD for about $4200 now...
-
- - mike
- cs123052@cs.brown.edu
-