Yet Another G5 Roundup

Lawrence Person writes "This article on Low End Mac talks about why the PowerPC 970 is so fast, covering its superiority to Intel chips in Multiply Accumulate, double precision arithmetic, and Fast Fourier Transforms, among other operations. A short, clear article for those who don't have the time to wade through Parts 1 and 2 of Ars Technica's exceptionally detailed dissection of the 970/G5." Trollaxor writes "IBM has a neat two-page history of the PowerPC architecture, detailing its evolution from the first RS/6000 chipsets in 1990, through the POWER ISA, and into the processors that we know and use today. A very interesting read."

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Re:This is really cool

[fputs(shit, slashdot]

I know a couple of women with imacs, chosen because they matched the carpet or something. Those cosmetics cost money, fortunately I have better things to do than stare at in-animate objects. Nothing wrong with the G5 though, if they can knock-out an OS-free dual cpu 1u rack for a reasonable price then I'll buy a few. I'm not paying more for a pretty box tho.