AnimeHeretic wrote:Also wonder if AMD wil make processors or if this is going to be the usual attitude of Apple with one option only.
Locke wrote:Something that I always wondered is why do MS laptops top over 3.0 Ghz and the most expensive iMac is only 1.83 Ghz ?
glitch1501 wrote:http://www.asia.apple.com/g4/myth/
i couldnt find that on the northamerican site...wonder why
that was what they were telling everyone when they were with the powerpc chips...i dont know if thats still a factor now
i never really believed it...my pc has always run faster than any mac i have been on...and we have g5's here at school...photoshop runs way better on my 3.6p4
Shooraijin wrote:For one thing, it's a dual core, so the clock speeds are probably different.Locke wrote:Something that I always wondered is why do MS laptops top over 3.0 Ghz and the most expensive iMac is only 1.83 Ghz ?
AnimeHeretic wrote:I found an old "Dummies" book on computers talking about how the G4 had a 128bit processor as oppsed to the 32 bit processors of Intel and compared to the 64 bit processors now made (after the book was published).
If the new Apple copy is claiming 4x faster with Intel which is 32 bit,, does that mean the Mac was doing less per cycle with it's 128bits than the PC?
I don't know... it may be history now but it almost seems like Mac is admitting their previous claims of superiority in performance were wrong.
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