Pitting a Mac Plus Against an AMD Dual Core

Posted by kdawson on Thursday May 31, 2007 @04:44AM from the computing-through-the-ages dept.

In the Age of Computer Bloat someone has decided to do a performance comparison between a 1986 Mac Plus and a 2007 AMD Dual core, each running appropriate software. Computer Bloat does not fare so well. "In order to keep the hoots and hollers of 'unfair comparison' at a minimum, we designed the tests to be as fair and equitable as possible. We focussed on running tests that reflect how the user perceives the computing experience... And no, we didn't include processing-heavy modern software like Photoshop or Crysis! We selected very basic everyday functions that were performed equally by the 1980's and the 2007 Microsoft applications."

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Re:Lets compare a typewriter to a word processor. by rubycodez · 2007-05-31 06:05 · Score: 0, Troll

better yet, by that logic we should all be typing by mashing our noses into the keyboard and licking a braille monitor while listening to audio via butt plug transducer because that's all a blind quadriplegic with 100% damaged skin nerves could do.