Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[Ron Hall <crimson@execpc.com>]

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, David wrote:
> And for a lot of good reasons. Not the least of which is it might speed it
> up. In my personal experience a brand new, (and not loaded with everything
> ever written for a PC) 400MHz Presario with 96Mb RAM  is slower in actual
> use (forget benchmarks) than a 120MHz Mac PPC, even in simplest of tasks,
> like opening a window, which takes up to a second.
> 
> And my old 266MHz Pentium machine takes longer to open the "My Computer"
> window than my 400MHz B&W G3 Mac does to open Netscape..... this is NOT an
> exaggeration, but a practical, timed, actual, and repeatable situation.
> 
> 

Could you please pass whatever you are smoking over here?  It sounds like
some good stuff.  There is no way a 400mhz Presario is going to perform
the same as a 120mhz PPC.. If it did, then there was definitely something
wrong with your Presario.

-Ron