The agency I worked at in he eighties had a mix of Macs and Power Computing clones. The clones were always problematic, and they eventually ended up on the trash heap. it was Apple's idea to license the op sys to clones. It didn't work, and they went back to being exclusive. Looking at the stock price and the market penetration, I'd say it was a very good choice. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Polyhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:07:06 +0000 > Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 22/12/07, Polyhead, apparently very discombobulated, unleashed: > > > > >In 2002 I was working with a company called genesi on their then new > > >Pegasus board. It was a standard MATX form PPC board with an open > > >firmware system. During benchmarking, we found that our 500mhz g3 > > >machine was 30% faster than apples g3 machines, all of them, and on top > > >of that, ours sold new for the half the price of a used g3 machine! > > >Apple boards are of poor design, with poor performing north bridges and > > >a questionable dma controller. The pci bus is high in latency, so high, > > >you can loose 10% of your performance just by using a pci card of any > > >sort in one. > > > > That's all very nice but what was the tea like? > > > > I don't know anything about benchmarking and boards, I'm a cameraman. > > All I know is that the Apple stuff seems to work okay, and I can afford > > it, so I'm a happy (if lunatic) bunny. > > I'm the evil lil bun bun :D > > > > > > >I'll also never forgive apple for what they did to the clones, greedy > > >bastards. > > > > Even during those days, I never would have considered a clone. Maybe an > > ice cleam clone. > > The Power Computing clones were far superior to ANYTHING apple ever made. > > > > -- > > > > > > Cheers, > > Cotty > > > > > > ___/\__ > > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > > ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com > > _____________________________ > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow > the directions. > > > -- > Ben 'Polyhead' Smith > KE7GAL > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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