Steve Jobs, Apple's interim chief executive, obviously was quite proud of his firm's G3/333 that he demonstrated at the Seybold seminar in New York a few months ago. The machine was quite quick and the Windows world had nothing to compare with it.
Well, the machine finally has reached Hong Kong and we can now see for ourselves if it is the Windows killer he said it was.
It is an extremely fast machine, and for the purposes to which it will be put by most of its users, it would be difficult to find anything faster. The only hesitation I have is the simple fact that nothing in the computer world lasts for long. The G3/333 quite possibly is the fastest thing around for one thing - image manipulation.
I was able to take a large Photoshop image and do things with it instantly. For example, I tried a Gaussian blur, a notoriously long process. It was done almost before I realised. I was working with a file that was about one megabyte in size, so I tried it with a 15 MB file.
The larger file naturally took longer to process, but not that much longer.
The Ultra Wide SCSI makes it certain that disk access will not be slow and with nine GB, you should be able to run the machine without running out of space for a few days.
