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Still Out In Front (4/21/98)
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AtAT's received several worried queries from faithful viewers who wanted to know if the new 400 MHz Pentium II processor eliminates the current PowerPC performance lead. The answer, of course, depends on your point of view. Apple's "up to twice as fast" campaign is based on Byte Magazine's Bytemark benchmark, which seems to imply that Intel will have to come up with at least a 600 MHz Pentium II before things start to even up.
Of course, benchmarks often have little or nothing to do with real-world performance, which is why Steve Jobs gave a side-to-side Photoshop demo at his Seybold keynote. That demo showed a 266 MHz G3 system slightly outpacing a 333 MHz Pentium II system from Compaq. The 300 MHz G3 system beat the Compaq by a pretty hefty margin. And in an update to the Photoshop tests, PC Week just announced that the G3/300 still beats the PII/400, both in graphics performance and in Microsoft Office tasks.
Photoshop performance may or may not have any relation to what you personally use computers to accomplish, but hearing PC Week say that the G3 wins even at Office tasks is a pretty good indication that among currently-shipping systems, the G3 maintains its lead. Personally, we got to install Office 98 on a G3/266 last week, and we clocked Word 98's launch time at 3.34 seconds. Pretty darn impressive, at least in our opinion. (Not that anyone's going to rush out and buy a G3/300 just to do light word processing, but what the heck.)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 4/21/98 episode: April 21, 1998: A couple more big Washington names jump on the Microsoft pig pile. Meanwhile, PC Week confirms that the G3 has nothing to fear from the 400 MHz Pentium II, and forgotten film footage from three whole months ago undercuts Intuit's claimed reason for ending Mac Quicken development...
Other scenes from that episode: 647: The Resistance Grows (4/21/98) According to a Philadelphia Enquirer article, Microsoft continues to accumulate some high-profile enemies in the antitrust war. Their latest celebrity detractors include Robert Bork (whom you may remember from his Supreme Court nomination several years back) and former senator Bob Dole... 649: The Quicken Conspiracy (4/21/98) Following Intuit's recent announcement that they are halting further development of Quicken for the Macintosh, we've received a ton of feedback from faithful viewers with varying perspectives on the issue...
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