jclee@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Jimmy Lee) (04/28/91)
The results I had obtained was done without any inits installed,
AppleTalk was disabled, and no ram cache.
The thing that surprise me was that the results differs depending
upon which Apple HD was installed. For example, the Miniscribe was
a little bit faster than the Rodime. The overall speed was 1.14 and
1.02 respectively.
I had also tested out the new Mac Classic and found the following
results:
Classic with 2 megs and Conner 40 meg HD
CPU 1.0 Math 1.0
Disk 2.14 Overall 1.20
Classic with 1 meg and Rodime 100 meg HD
CPU 1.0 Math 1.0
Disk 2.86 Overall 1.38
With my somewhat limited technical experience, I say that the Mac +
and the SE is very identical. The results I got was rather similar.
If I do a lot of application switching and opening and closing
windows, the Plus seems to does it more smoothly and a little
faster. While, on the other hand, the SE slows to almost a crawl if
I do the same. The Classic was a lot better.
The truth: I am convinced that SE has its advantages. For example,
it does the "writing" part a bit faster when duplicating a big file,
it scrolls a bit more smoothly and faster in the "Page View" mood of
Word 4.0, and does QuickDraw faster, according to experts on this
net.
What are QuickDraw applications? Also could I have some response
what I have just typed?
Thanks. Pleas excuse my grammatical errors.
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CPU limoges@ac.dal.ca (04/29/91)
I've been following the SE vs. Plus debate for a while, and it seems that everyone is looking for speed differences. The SE is a superior piece of hardware regardless of speed (and BTW disk speed is often more affected by the disk you're using than by the Plus or SE difference). It has a better power supply, with plenty of extra power for add-on boards and an internal HD. Oh yes, that reminds me that there is an internal SCSI and power connector. The power supply is self-adjusting, which means you don't have to worry about tuning it when you add RAM, a board a/o HD. And the fan is also an advantage, if you don't have one of the early noisy ones (I got mine replaced). I know that this often doesn't justify the price difference, but now that cheap accelerators of all sorts are available, I think I will find it an advantage to have the SE. Upgrading is a simple do-it-yourself job. The Plus upgrades often need extra power supply, a fan, and occasionnally some soldering, not stuff I would like to do. And I was forgetting that the SE is an ADB Mac; lots of good add-on products for the Mac come only in ADB versions (inexpensive digitizer tablets come to mind). I didn't have to pay much extra money for my SE instead of a Plus back when it was introduced, so I can't complain about price differences. But if you are planning to upgrade, the SE is a more healthy machine (IMHO used SE is better than used Plus). Bertrand Limoges ( Wish I could find that brilliant quote I should have down here!)