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Anton Smirnov wrote in article <5rrrna$k1c$1...@news1.bu.edu>...

>JCT (jt...@mci2000.com) wrote:
>: Exactly... well put.  "It doesn't matter who's first, but who's better."
>: All in all, someone was bound to come up with that idea.  If Apple
>: didn't buy the GUI idea from Xerox, back in the good ol' days, someone
>: else would have bought it, or may have just produced something like it.
>: Even though the Mac sucks so much, I certainly HOPE and WISH they don't
>: go out of business completely.  Why?  Because if they went out of
>: business, there would be basically very little competition, which would
>: drive the cost of WinTel products and machines up.  Then again, it might
>: not.  :)>  Maybe uSoft may drive their OS prices up.
>
>Umm, I hate to dissapoint, but the current Macs (Power Tower Pro, to be
exact)
>benchmarks as 20 % faster than the Pentium with MMX for doing graphics,
> despite having inferior
>software & a too slow buss speed (buss speed should not fall below 20% of
CPU
> speed. The Power Towers is under that). The Pentium II (with MMX) is about
as
>fast as the PowerTower, but the G3 chip that ships next month will make the
>the PowerTower 40% faster (by benchmarks - we aren't talking clock
>speed. clock speeds don't mean that much) than the current model

Well I hate to disappoint, but no single measurement can be used to jugde
"better".  The "better" that was being talked about was the OS and mechine
in general, and the truth is that PC's generally have better implementation
of new technologies and ideas than Apple mechines.  This, inspite of the
fact that Apple is sometimes the first to impliment them.

  Mechine speed, even in a well rounded benchmark, is not necessarily
accurate in predicting the speed for all uses.  Price, upgradibility,
usability, and many other factors must be considered to judge "better".
Plus, what you're saying is the top of the line mechines are pretty equal in
speed now, but something new is comming out for the Mac's.  New processors
will also be comming for PC's, not to mention several advances for the
motherboards in a short amount of time.  To quote Forest Gump, "that's all I
have to say sbout that."