I believe Phil's link also leads to this, which shows the 9600/350 smoking the world in Mathematica:
fampm201.tu-graz.ac.at
Also, two exciting little pieces of the bull puzzle, from Don Crabb:
zdnet.com
zdnet.com
Highlight for Alomex, who didn't believe me that Office '98 will help drive sales:
"You know, Don," writes another Mac manager at a Fortune 100 company, "none of my bosses paid any attention when I told them that the new G3-based Power Macs were better buys - on a strict performance basis - than comparable Pentium II iron from Dell or Compaq. But then I managed to get Apple to give us a G3 minitower for side-by-side comparisons between Office 97 running on Windows NT and Office 98 on Mac OS; that won the day.
"Our company was planning on dumping more than 2,000 administrative Macs and replacing them with Dell or Compaq P2s over the next six months," the manager writes. "But now, we're replacing our older Power Macs with G3 models."
Without a robust, modern Office version the speed wouldn't have mattered and Apple loses $400,000 or so.
Anyway, couldn't stand missing the fun and decided to buy in today, a quarter of my usual position.
Marc |
