x x how do they compare also amiga comparisson david a schnider bmug org wrote the real question here in my opinion is what motorola processors running sy stem on a mac are comparable to what intel processors running windows on a pc i stuff deleted david even better than that how does a based amiga perform in daily tasks compared to my based iici answer except in a very few cases i get my butt kicked by the amiga sure there are other considerations but it goes to show you how proper design from the beginning in hardware and software can give you great returns as well as showing you that if you don t have a marketing department to speak of no one will care how good your system is i ve had the same experience actually i love the mac interface and any number of the features but am sorely dissapointed with the speed i use macs daily and am a moc consultant for osu statistics department i m familiar with almost every model out there and my experience is that both the amiga and the atari st simply blow the mac out of the water in terms of performance at this time i would in general say that the other advantages of the mac outweigh the advantages of the amiga or the st and falcon but i really wish apple would get their heads together on speed they could take a real lesson in muli tasking from the amiga os or the multitos in the atari falcons too i m still happy with my ci but i don t understand why the performance is so bad comparatively they could have done multi tasking properly they could have done everthing else better but apple didn t of course dos and windows are nothin to write home about either i just hope that someone comes out with a machine that does everything well someday if i had my choice i would go with mac in most aspects but add the speed and superior multi tasking of the other platforms as for the original topic trying to compare just the chip in a machine seems almost worthless a fast with a wiz bang graphics accelerator will be faster in productivity for many applications than a even a stock quadra add a graphics accelerator to a and you really fly of course add one the the quadra and then you re blowing the away etc oh well y all got worth for the price of i think mine was only worth david butler dhbutler magnus acs ohio state edu this is not a novel to be tossed away lightly it should be thrown with great force dorothy parker
