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To: Dragonfly who wrote (764)	4/22/1998 2:46:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

That's what you get if you buy the current generation G3s. You can buy a G3 at 275MHz that's twice as fast as the same priced pentium machine. Apple had about a %20 performance edge when they went to the PowerPC, but that has widened dramatically since them. (I'm a shareholder of Intel, btw. I like Intel, but until they change the architecture and move everyone over to a modern architecture they are going to be behind performancewise. They will do this soon.) I think the "trwice as fast" thing is misleading. What is twice as fast? Floating point operations? Integer math? Graphics? I think you'd be hard pressed to find an application that was twice as fast on a G3 than a equally priced PC.