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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:39:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.224200.22219@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> merrifie@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael C Merrifield) writes:
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- >
- > "Recent Studies Reveal 25MHz Is Now Faster Than 50MHz"
- >
- >"Ingram Benchmark Results, March 1992 - 25 and 33 MHz 040 Macintosh Quadra
- >Outruns the 486 at 33 and 50 MHz."
- >
- >"This revelation is brought to you by the Apple Macintosh and the Motorola
- >68040." The add goes on to say that Ingram Labs (an independent PC testing
- >firm) compared the newest 040 Macs (Quadra 950 and 700) to several of the
- >quickest 486 Windows PCs running the most popular applications for both
- >Macintosh and Windows 3.0 (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Wingz, PageMaker,
- ^^^ Oh goody. Why not use go whole hog here and
- use Windows 2.11? 3.1 is quite a bit faster
- than 3.0.
-
- >Persuasion and Illustrator) and measured the performance of "real world
- >functions" (such as opening a file, scrolling, running a macro, performing
- >calculations, etc.).
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- What else was in those machines? They probably put Trident cards in the
- clones and used (slow) IBM VGA in the PS/2s.
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