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Subject: Re: OS Survey

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 01:24:10 06/17/02

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On June 17, 2002 at 03:21:38, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>What do you mean? You quote my "MacOSX!" twice and ask what I have? :) Or you
>mean the hardware? I have a powerbook G3/500 (also called Pismo) .(pretty old by
>now)

Yes, I was wondering which computer you had, whether it was iBook, PowerBook,
iMac, etc.

>
>>To bad the price isn't as pretty!
>
>:) 2 things:
>
>(1) Wait for next MacWorld in July
>(2) If you compare raw speed of Macs and Wintel machines, you won't be happy :)
>
>But the speed is more than enough for the things I do: email, browsing, some
>chess programming.

So are you saying that Mac's are faster than it appears? IE an 800 MHz PowerBook
might be as fast as a 1GHz Athlon (or whatever the conversion actually is)? Or
is it the other way around, where an 800 MHz PowerBook would be slower than an
800 MHz Athlon or P3? I always remember hearing how a 500 MHz alpha processor
would beat the 1GHz Pentiums or Athlons.

Russell



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