Well if you look at the amazing conversion of Carrier Command on the Spectrum compared to the thing that was called carrier command that was released on the Commodore I don't see how anyone can wi h a straight face say the Commodore was a superior machine.

For a certain type of game to Commie could produce faster smoother games, but outside that niche (side scrolling plafomers/horizontal shmups) it barely even got to the start line vs the speccy.