I am a huge mac fan, but Slashdot keeps on posting news about macs from non-reputable sites. These sites include this post, and MacOS Rumors. The Altivec chipset is great, and I find that when supported it gives great performance. I have a G4 450MP and when encoding cd's into 192Kbit stereo mp3, it chugs at about 12x completing a cd in 6mins. Apple, Motorolla and IBM need to sit down and work out the whole processor mess. They created the PowerPC processor together, keep it going!
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http://www.apple.com/g4/ This describes the altivec.
I am a huge mac fan, but Slashdot keeps on posting news about macs from non-reputable sites. These sites include this post, and MacOS Rumors. The Altivec chipset is great, and I find that when supported it gives great performance. I have a G4 450MP and when encoding cd's into 192Kbit stereo mp3, it chugs at about 12x completing a cd in 6mins. Apple, Motorolla and IBM need to sit down and work out the whole processor mess. They created the PowerPC processor together, keep it going!