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The Importance of Operating Systems.(Letter to the Editor)
I mostly agree with David Faibush's letter "Apples to Oranges?" (pg. 8, July 2001) regarding your comparison of the Mac and the PC on pg. 62 of the March 2001 issue. However, I think Faibush failed to point out the most important issue: the operating systems.
We all know how great the dynamics of change are in the computer industry. For example, your review author probably wrote that comparative benchmark piece at least a month before the March 2001 issue was released, and he used a system running Mac OS 9.04 for the tests. A month after he wrote the review, OS X was shipping. And even if he had been able to run OS X, there were not as yet many 3D CAD programs optimized for OS X. There will most likely be more by the time this letter is published!
Mac OS X.1 is scheduled to ship this fall. Likewise, Apple is already shipping dual 800MHZ G4 workstations. When that combination is available, I think a similar benchmark test--using a 3D CAD application such as formZ, ...
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