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To: Eric Yang who wrote (16659)	8/14/1998 9:46:00 AM
From: Roger A. Babb	Read Replies (6) of 213177

Eric, the speed comparison can easily be settled by taking any one of a number of industry standard benchmarks (such as Specmark) or just write a small C program that crunches some numbers in a loop and compare. This is not a subjective matter, the results can be quickly established. The PC makers will let Apple go out on the limb making these claims with the big advertising budget and then saw it off. The sad thing is that it is not necessary to make these suspect speed claims to sell the product. Most users on most applications could not tell the difference between a 100mhz machine and a 500mhz machine. There are many other reasons to buy an imac, it is stupid to focus the advertising on a bogus speed claim that would not have been an issue except for Apple making the claim. In reality the imac is about the same speed as a 233mhz MMX and that is fast enough for most users, so I just don't get the point of making bogus claims. If anyone really believes that a 233mhz imac with a 66mhz bus is 40% faster than a P2 400mhz with a 100mhz bus, let's get together a betting pool and hire an independant testing lab to make the comparison.

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