On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Dave McGuire wrote:

> ...in the desktop world, the newest Macs (I hate to say it) are running
> big fiery rings around the newest Intel boxes.
>   Now it's up to the suits to figure out which is *really* more bang
> for the buck. :)

Yeah, but if you can live without bleeding edge performance, the
slightly older (but still fast) stuff is a lot more cost-effective
from Intel than from anyone else.

The 180 MHz Pentium Pro CPU is currently going for around US$225.

cjs

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