Mike, Almost sounds like the comparison Michael made between the Canon 1DS and the Pentax 67 - no?
Bruce Saturday, January 25, 2003, 9:58:30 AM, you wrote: >> The speed of a system is the sum of the speed of it's parts. If the hard >> drive >> is to the specifications of the manufacture, and in a Mac you certainly don't >> roll your own so to speak, then the analysis is valid. I don't think I'd be >> very happy to buy a machine crippled by the manufacturer using substandard >> components. He may have attributed the difference in speed to the processors >> but that hardly changes the bottom line. MJ> He _chose_ the slower ATA hard drives. At the Apple online store you can MJ> choose the faster Ultra 160 SCSI drives with a simple pull-down menu. MJ> http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/43/wo/ON3ozP MJ> C8IMBr3y0JCUA1isVkGEU/1.3.0.3.27.21.1.3.19.3.1.1.0?35,12 MJ> Apple makes it clear right there on the page: MJ> "Hard Drive: The Power Mac G4 has four drive bays in which you can add up to MJ> nearly half a terabyte of storage. Choose Ultra ATA hard drives for lower MJ> cost and excellent performance or Ultra160 SCSI drives which offer maximum MJ> performance for demanding applications, such as RAID and drive striping." MJ> Subtract the sales-speak and what this says, very clearly, is: choose Ulta MJ> ATA for lower cost or 160 SCSI for maximum performance. MJ> The choice is plain, obvious, and up front. MJ> What he did was like comparing two competing automobiles, one with the base MJ> engine and one with the optional more powerful engine. It predetermined the MJ> result. Not a fair or a good test IMHO. MJ> --Mike
