Re: TI-H: OT: Mac-top

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Re: TI-H: OT: Mac-top


>OK, um, no.  They want me to pay $2500 for a 333MHz G3 with 64MB RAM, a 4GB
>(!) HDD, a CD-ROM (not even DVD!), and, ok, fine, integrated modem & NIC.
>But it's still a 333 with the Mac OS running on it.

Don't get a 333 them.  You can't compare an intel 333 and ibm 333.  It just
doesn't work that way.

>A) I do not have, nor will I have, $2500 to spend on this thing.  $2000 is
>cutting it REAL close.

Computer City has this new Toshiba with DVD, sound card, 1024x768, realy
good onboard speakers (3d surrond), and all this other stuff.  it has an
AMD processor.  See if they sell them where you are.  They are quite new
and about $2,500 if I remember correctly.

>B) With the amount of money I DO have, I'll be able to get (hold on to your
>seats) a 233 with a 2GB drive and 32MB RAM.  That's $2000 - on Pricewatch.

Thats a pretty nice machine.

>If you're rich, I can certainly see getting one of these things - that is,
>assuming you LIKE the Mac OS.  But I ain't.  As far as performance for
>price, it still looks like the PC is the way to go.

Nope.  :)  Thats like saying Intel 533 gives more performance designing 3d
games than the 100MHz SGI.


The Intel 533 and AMD 450 (which are pretty close in performance) are more
than 2 times slower than the 195MHz SGI Origin.


The Intel and AMD are more comparable to the 175MHz SGI Indigo.

Processor speeds these days in MHz can't be compared directly.

Hey!  I have an International Harvester Scout II (1977) and it has the same
engine as some luctury made durring that time....the only difference is
that its supported my a bunch of not so good parts.  Those nice cars had
$700 carbs, and this has a $175 job.


In 1988, you could get either a 25MHz 68030 HP 9000/360.  You could also
get a 20MHz 386 SX.  Guess which was faster?  Well, one was $11k more than
the other.


These days, computers are getting cheeper so that its not such a drastic thing.

For raw processing performance, the PPC 750 333MHz computer is just behind
the SGI Origin.  The Indigo can be compared to the 266MHz 750.

And HP (My favorite; I have 9000/400s) PA RISC 8000 at 160MHz is afew
percent faster than the dual processor 300MHz PII board.

The pent boards arent cheap.  All the computers benchmarked were servers
and not too cheap.

The 300MHz UltraSparc 300MHz is over 100 points faster than the 500MHz
Alpha.  MHz mean nothing but how many times a second an osc. goes from peak
to peak.
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