Performance shock

[Ed Sutherland]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

>>I just wish some Mac folks would chime in.  I am a complete newbie and
>>the Linux distributions I have tried seem a little slow.
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>I used Mac only once, at Uni in 1998, was the latest G3 beige stuff. I
>love working on it, such a nice overall look and feel, however I
>remember being shocked at how slow they were compared to all the other
>machines in the campus, which ran windows NT4 on 166MHz Pentiums.
>Since Mac are Unix deep down, as I understand it, it probably explains
>it. 
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I just ended a five-year fascination with Macs -- I had one of the 
latest slot-loading G3s. The OS is gorgeous. The graphics are out of 
this world. I just tired of this app or that game being only available 
for Windows. I wanted a headless Mac, rather than the CRT behemoths. 
Ironically, a week or two after getting my Dell, Apple announces the Mac 
mini, a headless Mac for a few hundred bucks. :)

Ed