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

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

Interesting points, but not relevant to the point that Paul was making.

Resizing large images is not a common business use of computing power.
Clerical tasks are, which do well on text-based interfaces.


"Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> 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
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> > 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....