Steve <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>"B.J. Major" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>Nothing beats the speed of the Power PC macs.  Nothing.  Right now they are
up to 150 megahertz in speed and in six months will be=
 o=3D
>>ver 200 megahertz.
>
>*Bzzzzt*, wrong, try again!  The mac disk set-up slows the Macs down
>considerably.  Any time you use the hard drive, the computer has to wait
>for the hard drive to give it information.
 
Not necessarily--if you have a RAM disk set up or use the Level 2 cache that is
available now in Power Macs you don't have to wait f=
or it to access the hard drive.
 
--bj
 
  The PC disk set-up is MUCH
>faster than the mac set-up, resulting in PCs beating macs in speed for
>day-to-day use.  Also, macs are years begind OS/2 in multi-tasking and
>protected memory.  Copeland will be a step closer to the power of OS/2,
>but will not be out for years.  A PC with OS/2 is cheaper, faster, and
>has a better operating system than a mac.  It is also harder to find
>software for as well, but with the merger of IBM and Lotus, this may
>change.
>
>All claims of mac superiority die when faced with OS/2 or LINUX.  If you
>want to beat up on the windows OS's, more power to ya!
>
>
>--
>
>"Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks
>create self consciousness, let alone how the human brain
>processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three
>dimensional phenomenon known as perception.  Yet you,
>somehow, brazenly declare that "seeing is believing."
>
>                                            Man in Black
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