Quote :

"Check out the results! For the functions that people use most often, the 1986 vintage Mac Plus beats the 2007 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+: 9 tests to 8! Out of the 17 tests, the antique Mac won 53% of the time! Including a jaw-dropping 52 second whipping of the AMD from the time the Power button is pushed to the time the Desktop is up and useable."

http://hubpages.com/hub/_86_Mac_Plus_Vs_07_AMD_DualCore_You_Wont_Believe_Who_Wins

Some guys test a Mac Plus from 1986 against a Dual Core AMD computer now in some office functions (excel, word, booting), and the Mac Plus keeps pace. Obviously, this is mostly for comic relief, they're comparing completely different classes of software, using heavily weighted tests, but it's still mildly amusing.

one of the graphs, since people like images:

6/1/2007 5:13:27 PM

You wasted your thread.

6/1/2007 5:18:46 PM

ehhhhhhh

6/1/2007 5:19:19 PM

who didnt know this

6/1/2007 5:30:53 PM

simplicity is usually best, that and optimization of the code does wonders with performance.

6/1/2007 6:56:34 PM