Re: What has changed in the Apple world last 6 months?

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

Idle cycles? Try resizing a 24-bit, 300-DPI, 8.5x11 image on a Pentium 166
(or Mac equivalent) with 64MB of RAM. It takes about 10 minutes on mine. It
would probably be an overnight job on a IIgs.

Eye candy? Numerous studies have shown that larger screens greatly enhance
productivity (my own experience fully supports this view.) How well do you
think an old CPU would do running a 1024x768 screen? How about 1600x1280?

Tom Zuchowski

"Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message
news:90mfhb$qm7$1@merope.saaf.se...
> In article <3a2e9a31@news.svn.net>, Paul Grammens <grammens@svn.net>
wrote:
> Why?  These old Apple's had enough CPU power needed by many
> businesses.  The extra CPU power in modern computers is mostly used
> for "visual sugar" (pretty-looking GUI's etc), without adding any
> real content.  Or for idle cycles....