Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!SFAUSTIN.BITNET!Z4648252 From: Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: GCR vs. Mac Plus Message-ID: <891206.18562778.024049@SFA.CP6> Date: 7 Dec 89 00:56:56 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 20 ERIC HOBBS writes: " I have heard in circles that the Spectre GCR is faster than a 8MHz Mac Plus. Just how much faster is faster? I you can, maybe you could give me some benchmarks for comparison. Thanxs." No benchmarks here, but I can tell you that SuperClock is off by about eight minutes after the Spectre has come on-line in a one hour period. By being off, I mean that it is eight minutes too fast. I wish that Dave could fix that, but it does impress MACers who wonder why my clock is always running fast. Secondly, a good demo which shows how much faster Spectre GCR is than a real Mac is Aldus's FreeHand self-running demo. After one minute, the Spectre is about four pages ahead of a real Mac plus equipped comparably, i.e., memory, hard drive, etc. Also, putting a Mac Plus and Spectre equipped ST will reveal that the Spectre offers a snappier screen. No doubt about it, the Spectre is just faster. Larry Rymal: |East Texas Atari 68NNNers|