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May 1997 / Inbox / Platform Agnostics

I appreciate BYTE's efforts to remain platform-independent -- it helps the growing number of platform agnostics make intelligent buying decisions. "MMX: Better in Fits and Starts" (February Bits) in particular addresses an issue that I've been curious about. However, you compare a third-tier vendor (Polywell) to a first-tier vendor (Apple). While this probably won't skew the perform ance results that much, it greatly affects the bottom line. Mac clones have been as much as 25 percent cheaper than their Apple counterparts, while providing equal if not better performance.

John Flores
jflores@jfinteractive.com

We received a lot of mail regarding this news story, some pointing out, as you do, that less-expensive Macintosh clones are available. But then, Intel proponents took us to task for failing to note the Mac OS's belated (compared to NT) support for multiple processors. We tried to narrow the scope of the story to make it a CPU versus CPU comparison, not an OS versus OS comparison. -- Dave Andrews, news editor

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