Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] High end audio and photography analogies
From: Ken Iisaka <kiisaka@ms.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 14:34:53 +0900
 
Eric Welch wrote:

> >McIntosh.  Like
> >McIntosh, Leica is steeped in tradition, prized by aficionados, willing to
> >ignore a high tech present,
>
> Mac? Ignore high tech present? The PowerPC chips coming out are clearly
> superior to Pentium II chips. The new G4 chip in some functions is up to 36
> times faster that similar functions in same MHz Pentium IIs. And the iMac
> is less expensive than comparable Pentium II systems of the same
> performance level.

Uuuhhh, it's McIntosh, and not Macintosh.  The latter refers to the brilliantly
designed computers built by Apple, and the former refers to audio amplifiers.