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From: jcocon@hubcap.clemson.edu (james c oconnor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple's New Direction
Message-ID: <10361@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 90 21:06:02 GMT
References: <537@demott.COM>
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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From article <537@demott.COM>, by kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt):
> In article <1990Sep5.224018.3233@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> anthonjw@clutx.clarkson.edu (Jason W. Anthony,116 Congdon,,2683915) writes:
>>One thing I like about Apple is that they push new technology.
> 
>     Say what? This is the apple that released a *15* MHz Mac II when
> everyone else was pushing 25 and 33? Apple's computers have lousy
> performance compared to almost any other system. 

When the Mac II came out it was nearly identical to one of the fastest
IBM PS/2s that had appeared at the same time.  Byte showed that the two
were of comperable power, and the Mac II was cheaper when you loaded
up the IBM to match it.

Jim