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From: tslu@oliveb.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: RE:  New IBM, first impression....
Message-ID: <816@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 01:54:14 EST
Article-I.D.: oliveb.816
Posted: Mon Apr 13 01:54:14 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Apr-87 00:47:19 EST
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca
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> 	Saw and played with new IBMs today. 
> 
> 1) Norton Sysinfo says it's 1.9 times the speed of a PC. I was not blown away
> 	by this. My 90$ 4-layer 8MHZ clone board is rather a bit faster than
> 	that. The on-board RAM is apparently the same (?). This is not a good
> 	deal as far as I am concerned, since an AT clone is ~1200$ and that
> 	will blow the socks off the new IBM.
 
I could not agree more. The Performance System's 386 machine is 21
( YES, I SAID 21 ) times the speed of a PC, but its basic model cost 
only $2,895. This is less expensive than the 20M 8086 based IBM System 30
with color monitor ( $3,095 ).
 

Price / Performance comparison: 
 
IBM Model 30:      3,095 / 1.9 = 1629 ( $ per PC performance ) 
Performance 386:   2,895 / 21  = 138 

Now: 1629 / 138 = 11.8 ( Wow !!!! )