Apple clones

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Monday 02 June 2003 23:23, Tim Seufert wrote:

> If your G4's disk access sucks, you have a slow drive installed, or
> your drive is failing and is slow because it must constantly retry
> reads etc.  Especially if a notebook drive beats it.  I have a fast
> drive installed in my Quicksilver and its disk performance blows away
> every ia32 machine I use.  Of course, none of them have a 15000 RPM
> SCSI disk like my QS does, so that's kind of expected...

OK, but Apple puts a 5400 rpm IDE drive in!


> As for video, are you joking?

no

>  You didn't even compare the same game,

Sorry, I'm no professionnal tester and did not buy numerous copies just to 
test.

> and if you're being precise when you say "Wolfenstein 3D" you're
> talking about a game from what, 1991?

Sorry. Was "Return to Castle WOlfenstein" of course....

>
> As for SoF2, it's a port known to have severe performance problems on
> the Mac.  The listed minimum requirements are a joke.  Yes, both RTCW
> and SoF2 use the Quake 3 engine, but that doesn't make them even
> remotely similar in performance...

Understood

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