Re: TI-H: (OT about Grant's 486/68000)

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Re: TI-H: (OT about Grant's 486/68000)


Actually, now that you mention it, SCSI is the ONLY thing a standard Mac 
gets that doesn't come with your standard PC.  ANY PC worth its salt ever 
since over three years ago has come with a sound card, CD-ROM (or, lately, 
DVD) and modem.
PCs give you choices, too.  I _choose_ not to put a SCSI adapter in my 
machine because I simply have no reason for it.  You can get a PC configured 
in any number of ways, especially through a company like Dell - a wide 
variety of sound cards, video cards, modems, drives, monitors - everything - 
are available.
You can't compare MHz between chip families?  Well, then relative 
performance now has nothing to do with the architecture of the chips, now 
does it?  The only important thing becomes value - that is, what you get for 
what you pay.
In this case, the PC is the clear winner.  You can get a well-equipped PC 
from Dell - 550MHz, 64MB RAM, etc. for about $2200, I believe (cheaper if 
you build it yourself - another thing you can't do with a Mac).  Something 
of equivalent performance and capability would cost about $2500-$2600 from 
Mac.  You can't deny that.
Don't get me wrong - I think the Mac is a _GREAT_ platform.  But Macintosh, 
Inc. has CRIPPLED it.  The BIGGEST mistake they ever made was killing the 
clones.  The lack of competition has produced lackluster performance from 
Macintosh.  The system architecture is a great one - but a LOT of bad 
decisions have been made with the system that have made getting a Mac just a 
really bad idea.

P.S. - out of curiosity, can you run Linux on a Mac?

>Ok, Macs come with things like Sound cards, SCSI, and more, that aren't
>included in base PC configurations. Also, you can't compare MHz between
>chip families, it doesn't work. And you want to know why there won't be
>a G3/PIII merger? Because the PIII architecture is disgusting, it takes
>up an enormous amount of space. The Pentium is a dying chip, with more
>and more tacked onto it until it has become ridiculously bloated. The G3
>is tiny, and runs cool. The Pentium is bloated and CISC...I don't know
>what particular comparison you have seen comparing G3's to PI's, but I'd
>like to see it...
>
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>-Paul
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