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From: sb@pnet91.cts.com (Stephen Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ZIP GS... HOW FAST?
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Date: 7 Jun 91 07:00:07 GMT
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ISSLTC@NUSVM.BITNET (Lim Thye Chean) writes:
>Hi. After reading so many replies on my original question 'Zip vs
>Transwarp... which is better', I will settle down for Zip. This is
>because all of you who cares to reply say Zip is better, that is 100%
>agreement. So I assume Transwarp GS is an inferior product (at price/
>performance ratio).
>
>But two things almost change my mind. The first is the report on that
>disgusting magazine A+/Incider. On the 4 reports they produce on a
>10 MHz Zip with 64K cache, Zip is only slightly (2 seconds in some
>case) faster than the 7MHz Transwarp GS with 8K cache. A similiar
>report is on A2-Central (Title: The need for speed), where Transwarp GS
>beats a 8MHz, 16K cache Zip GSX. So I really wonder, is Zip really
>a faster board? It seems that Transwarp GS performs much faster on
>the same MHz and same cache configuration.
>
[big big big cut]

I haven't read the latest A+/InCider... the magazine is generally trash so I
don't waste my time. At any rate, if it's one second here or one second there
(especially one second over 10 or 20) then the difference IN SPEED, IN THE
BENCHMARKS THEY WERE USING, isn't significant. (Note that benchmark
performance only shows how well a CPU runs that benchmark... any predictive
value is inferred)  If the speed difference between the TWGS and ZIPGS isn't
significant (that's your IF, not mine), then to distinguish the two products,
you'd better look to other criteria... reliability, upgradability, power
consumption, compatibility, etc.

I'm not telling you which one to buy. I'm saying that you should look beyond
the numbers.
...IM ever so HO... (as always)


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