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To: soup who wrote (11847)	4/19/1998 6:25:00 PM
From: soup	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213177

PC vs. Mac speed. (Anecdote.) The service manager at the Mac store I work at told me that he'd gotten a call from a longtime friend and committed PC-head last week. That friend said his girlfriend had just picked a used 8500/150 and was complaining how slow it was and enlisted his help. Never having used a Mac before, he tried putting it through its paces. Afterwards, he told my service manager (amazed) "It's much faster than my 233mhz Pentium." FYI, an 8500/150 is about two generations old with a MacBench processor score of about 250. The new G3s are about 800 to 1000. The fastest currently shipping G3 beats low end Sun workstations for a couple of thousand less. With a UNIX-based OS due out this year, I think AAPL will have some products that some very adult "kids" will want. soup