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Inside the PowerPC 970

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the take-a-closer-look dept.

daveschroeder writes "Jon "Hannibal" Stokes has posted a long-awaited, very detailed analysis of the IBM PowerPC 970 at Ars Technica. Notable quote: 'The 970 was made for Apple'."

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  1. Re:drop AltiVec by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 5, Interesting

    AltiVec is nice for somethings.

    My iTunes ripping of mp3s nearly tripled when I went from a 466 MHz G3 to a 400 MHz G4 due to iTunes being optimized for AltiVec.

    Some Photoshop actions and filters see up to 800% improvments.

    Running iMovie exports on a 600 MHz G3 iMac take 2-300% longer than on a 400 or 500 MHz G4

  2. Re:In the market for a 64-bit workstation? by Mooncaller · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I did not have much trouble getting GNOME working on a HP B180 with HP-UX 10.20 ( compiled with acc, HP-UXs standard compiler). BTW that is a 180MHz PA-RISC machine. It kicked a 1GHz Pentium based workstations butt, even after I put Gentoo on the Intel box ( it original had only Windows NT, shudder). Fast clock rates can't compensate for a moronic architecture in the hands of heavily multitasking users like me.