Re: Apple and the Holy War

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <20000501104139.19944.00000685@ng-bd1.aol.com>,
Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
 
> pmd@NOescape.ca (Perry Dueck) wrote:
> 
>> supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, enough PowerPC G4 versus Intel Pentium III rhetoric.
>>> What do Mac folks think of the 1Ghz AMD Athlon?
>>
>> Not much.
> 
> That's the problem with Apple and the old Steve Jobs
> vision.  There has to be ONE evil entity.  Then it was
> IBM and thus Apple was blinded when Microsoft snuck
> up from behind.  Now it is Windows+Intel (Wintel),
> also a myth as AMD has proven.
> 
> When will Mac users learn that the computing world
> of today is dynamic and the competition is not
> between two players but many?
 
When they stop consider themselves as evangelists, which
I don't think will happen very soon.  It hasn't happened
during the last 20 years anyway...
 
"The Macintosh isn't a computer -- it's a religion"
 
 
> I, for one, would like to see benchmarks comparing
> the fastest G4 to the 1Ghz AMD chip.
> 
> If AMD makes good on its promise of a 1.5Ghz
> model soon, G4 emulation might not be too far off.
> Or at least earlier revision PowerPC emulation.
 
...yawm.... personally I've lost interest in this speed
competition.  Todays processors are much faster than
what I need anyway....
 
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