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On 9 Nov 1995, Nanno van Haaften wrote:

> Try running several graphical & DTP packages (pagemaker, photoshop etc) 
> on a Pentium 120 (32Mb) or on a PMac 7500/100 (32Mb) when I tested this:
> The Powermac was generally 1.5 times faster as the Pentium 120!
> 
> Best regards,
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> 
But how "visible" is that increase in performance to the average user.  
That is to say if the system does things in 1.5 seconds as opposed to 1 
second, it's probably not going to be noticable to most people.  On the 
other hand if the task takes an hour on the Mac vs 1.5 hours on the PC, 
that difference is noticable.   


Ed Shea 
eshea@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us

