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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (14223)	6/2/1998 11:32:00 AM
From: Alomex	Respond to of 213177

In fact, if you are a true Apple fan, and you expect the PowerPC to be powerful Pravin, I'm an investor, not a fan. As Peter Lynch used to say "never fall in love with your investments". Yes, porting NT to PowerPC would be bad for Apple. But I said "if I were Microsoft"... I agree that Microsoft is hedging its bets with the Alpha port, but I understand the Alpha has never quite delivered the price/performance advantage that RISC developers promised. I understand that this generation of PowerPC chips do.

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (14223)	6/2/1998 1:50:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

bootmarks show that Pentium II machine is faster than PowerMac G3... I just got this from one of my techs from the June 98 issue of boot magazine. The article, "The Fine Art of Benchmarketing" by Tom Halfhill (Senior Editor at Byte) indicates that Bytes Benchmarks and Apple's ad campaign is true when they say, the PowerPC G3 chip "is up to twice as fast at the Intel Pentium II". However, this is no indication of the computer system and OS as a whole. The article also indicated "...boot's sister magazine MacAddict tested one of those Macs against a 333 MHz Pentium II system. To the editors' suprise and chagrin, the P-II won." Concedes that Motorola PowerPC processor is faster. Also mentions stuff about motherboard, compilers and bus speeds as contributors, overall rather negative on Mac systems as less efficient and slower than Pentium systems. -Bill_H