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To: Dave Budde who wrote (137025)	6/9/2001 10:18:02 PM
From: ptanner	Respond to of 186894

Dave, Re: "I don't necessarily disagree with you, but don't see a lot of people showing that a Wintel machine runs real apps faster than a Mac." There was a limited comparison in the current version of Macworld (07/01 hardcopy - not yet "current" on their website) and the Gateway P4-1.5GHz won most of the tests. But I consider only two of the tests to be real performance test: MVP 1.2 MP3 encoding (P4 47% faster) and Quake III (P4 54% faster) but the former is likely sensitive to the quality of the optimizations for each platform and the latter may have been video card limited. Macworld didn't give enough details. Your basic point, though, was that there aren't a lot of publication of benchmarks showing PCs beating Macs on software. With the exception of notebooks (the current iBook is attractive price/performance but I still have problems with Apple's pricing for memory and HDD expansion -- much higher than other OEMs), I think Apple has a daunting task to significantly expand market share despite the unique advantage of controlling the hardware platform & OS. -PT (long-time Apple user and AAPL investor)