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From: woan@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 70 vs MAC II
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Date: 7 Sep 88 22:25:16 GMT
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In article <12292@cisunx.UUCP> goosh@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Walter Perz) writes:
>In article <8X7VPiyS2k-0M0m1wg@andrew.cmu.edu> ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes:
>>
>>  I am considering purchasing either an IBM model 70 or an Apple Mac II.  I
>>would appreciate anyone`s opinions or advise on the subject.  I consider the
>>two just about equal in graphics, 
>
>whoa.... not if you get a good vga monitor and card... the Mac just looks
>like good graphics because of its small size...
>
I think that Walter is thinking about the Mac's with the built in monitors
because some of the monitors that can be attached to the Mac II are quite
large. Then again, depending how much you are willing to spend, you can get
nice monitors for the IBM-PC family (1280x1024 res. with 16 million colors).

>when you consider speed, remember that the whole ibm family generally
>smokes the macintosh at i/o.... and that is what you notice the most.

This is a bunch of baloney, the SCSI drives that most Mac's are attached to
will smoke our MFM drives. What really determines speed is how much you
are willing to spend.
>
>get a compaq 386 deskpro 20 megahertz for some serious @$$ kicking!

Get a model 70 with the 64k cache, 25 MHz '386, and 160 Meg ESDI and make 
the Compaq look as if it were standing still.