Not sure what your talking about here www.TOP500.com does not contain a single TRUE PowerPC CPU, the POWER3's used by IBM are not PowerPC Cpu's but the next Generation of PowerPC Cpu's , the conform to the specifications of the PowerPC Architecture but, you will not be able to take on othe these and place them in your Mac G4
As for the Dual Mac G4 at 1Ghz, it is actually 2 CPU's at 500MHz
PLUS the L3 cache is not all that great, it is external, backside configuration L3 cache, up to 2MB of it.
As for Intel and AMD on the www.TOP500.org list ther are a number of them
"The first PC Cluster (#35 wth 825 GF/s) is based on AMD Athlons and installed at the IWR at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. "
Plus the list goes on to explain
"A total of 42 Intel based and 7 AMD based PC cluster are in the TOP500.
31 of these Intel based cluster are IBM Netfinity systems delivered by IBM. A substantial part of these are installed at industrial customers especially in the oil-industry....."
Check the list out yourself at
http://www.top500.org/lists/2002/06/trends.html
I prefer the Kinesis Evolution, very nice to look at and very comfortable, though the price is a bit much at $569 USD, but what the price of painless computing and a future without medical problems worth to you?
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Not sure what your talking about here www.TOP500.com does not contain a single TRUE PowerPC CPU, the POWER3's used by IBM are not PowerPC Cpu's but the next Generation of PowerPC Cpu's , the conform to the specifications of the PowerPC Architecture but, you will not be able to take on othe these and place them in your Mac G4 As for the Dual Mac G4 at 1Ghz, it is actually 2 CPU's at 500MHz PLUS the L3 cache is not all that great, it is external, backside configuration L3 cache, up to 2MB of it. As for Intel and AMD on the www.TOP500.org list ther are a number of them "The first PC Cluster (#35 wth 825 GF/s) is based on AMD Athlons and installed at the IWR at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. " Plus the list goes on to explain "A total of 42 Intel based and 7 AMD based PC cluster are in the TOP500. 31 of these Intel based cluster are IBM Netfinity systems delivered by IBM. A substantial part of these are installed at industrial customers especially in the oil-industry....." Check the list out yourself at http://www.top500.org/lists/2002/06/trends.html
It Said "Virgos" not virgins ;)
Or Elephant Shoes. Though i'm not sure how often the phrase Elephant Shoes comes up in conversation
I prefer the Kinesis Evolution, very nice to look at and very comfortable, though the price is a bit much at $569 USD, but what the price of painless computing and a future without medical problems worth to you?
This technology would be great for the people who have Alzheimers and other related illnesses, where they wander off.