Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Apple Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (17124)	8/22/1998 3:21:00 AM
From: Doren	Respond to of 213182

I find this report hard to believe. I'll do some testing this week. I'll compare: Dell dual Processor PII 9600/300 8500/with G3 upgrade running at 315Mhz Photoshop File QT movie We'll see.

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (17124)	8/22/1998 9:23:00 AM
From: soup	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

>Apple needs to offer faster graphics to compete with PCs< Intel shit! >For example, the faster 266-MHz PC was tested with a Diamond Viper V330, which has a 128-bit graphics processing chip as opposed to the PowerMac's 64-bit ATI Rage II+.< PowerMacs now ship with Rage Pro. Also the Viper is a 4-8mb card while the Mac ships with 2MB (upgradeable to 6). If the monitors were 21" (vs. 15"), that would significantly slow graphics performance >The Excel and Word tests blend disk, processor, and display activity. For the Excel test on the Power Mac G3 266, the time taken is unusually high. Engineers were unable to determine the cause of this reproducible slow score.< They actually had the Power Mac 233mhz outperforming the Power Mac 266mhz! Morons. >The FileMaker test mixes data manipulation and disk operation.< PPCs have EIDE Drives. What hard drives were used in the Wintel machines? IDE? SCSI? Fast and Wide SCSI? RAM Disk? >The Macintosh tests were run in the default graphics mode. Enabling graphics acceleration mode would make full use of high-performance adapters such as the ATI Rage II+, at the expense of repeatable image precision.< And, not coincidentally, enable these machines to kick Intel butt. >NSTL, an international IT testing organization and subsidiary of CMP Media, which publishes TechWeb.< Which is in turn owned by Intel that put BYTE out of business because it refused to bastardize its own test results! -------------------- PS> Now you made me late for work.