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From: gford@nunki.usc.edu (Gregory Ford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Macintosh and IBM systems
Keywords: Macintosh, IBM
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Date: 10 Jun 89 20:39:30 GMT
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In the June 8, 1989 edition of The Los Angeles Times, Richard O'Reilly
in his computer column talked about, among other things, cost
comparisons for similarly equipped (performance wise) IBM's and Macs.

O'Reilly writes:

> Comparing what would be a high-end OS/2 system with a high-end
> Macintosh system, Higgs [vice-president of software research
> for InfoCorp, Santa Clara, CA] projected a nearly $5,000 difference
> in favor of the Macintosh.  Equivalent performance between the two
> brands would be achieved, he [Higgs] said, with an IBM PS/2 Model 70
> with eight megabytes of random access memory, a math co-proccessor
> and an 80-megabytes hard disk at about $13,000, compared to a Macintosh
> IIx, with four megabytes of memory and an 80-megabytes hard disk for
> about $8,000.  The Macintosh has math co-processing built in and has
> equivalent performance with half as much operating memory because of
> differences in the operating systems, Higgs said.  But even with 
> identical memory, the Mac still would be substantially cheaper.

My, my.  That's impressive.  With the new system 7.0 coming out,
it makes you wonder if the gap will widen anymore?
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