i'm gonna have to agree. if we're talking about talked on hack architecture, we need look no further than the pentium class.
speaking of arrays. the g4 is purported to support multiple processors on a single die a la the power4. that'd still come out smaller than a merced, k7, and probably marginally bigger than a p3.
strange, you must not follow ppc prices very closely. they're almost always cheaper than the intel counterparts. smaller die, fewer transistors => cheaper chip. don't confuse an expensive mac with an expensive ppc chip. easy to see the confusion though.
i'm surprised that someone here would fall prey to the good ol' MHz war. especially since you're talking about the athlon. even with the numbers, is there anything terribly wrong here?
500, alright that looks a little bit on the low side. 1 MB of L2 @ 1/2 bus speed, last i checked that trumps both the P3 and athlon. 100 MHz FSB, there with the P3, trumped by the athlon. so rattling off the advertisers numbers the G4 sits somewhere betwixt the P3, and athlon. well maybe not quite. but...isn't the important thing performance?
i think there needs to be a brush up on apple's philosphy.
closed software, kinda'. sorta' open, mostly closed. compared to windows... i think i can finish there. seeing as you're using IE 5 i'm thinking a wee bit of hypocrisy has surfaced.
closed hardware. well i suppose that's true in the sense that not everyone and their sister can mock up a macintosh. then again, i'm pretty sure you couldn't walk to your local pc store and mock up a compaq, hp, dell, or ibm. those systems are just as closed as a system from apple. it just happens that 1) there's a helluva lot more hardware out there that can go into those, 2) they all happen to run the same OS. i'm not sure if that qualifies as an open hardware platform, just more prevalent.
i am aware of the dozens of mb out there and sure they all end up doing pretty much the same thing but an asus mb with a p3, and the remaining acoutrements don't make a dell do they?
so then, the outsides are based on something 20 years old? regardless, the core is still based on the pentium pro. i'm not sure if anyone could dispute that. toss in a better fab, couple extra instructions (SIMD, MMX), pump up the MHz and boom. P3. least intel could do is give a go like amd did.
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i'm gonna have to agree. if we're talking about talked on hack architecture, we need look no further than the pentium class.
speaking of arrays. the g4 is purported to support multiple processors on a single die a la the power4. that'd still come out smaller than a merced, k7, and probably marginally bigger than a p3.
604e fp faster than g3? sure, at the same MHz. 604e MHz > g3 MHz? no.
603/603e no fp? no. every ppc has an fp.
603 cheap? yes. poor performing, well no worse or better than a pentium.
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strange, you must not follow ppc prices very closely. they're almost always cheaper than the intel counterparts. smaller die, fewer transistors => cheaper chip. don't confuse an expensive mac with an expensive ppc chip. easy to see the confusion though.
i'm surprised that someone here would fall prey to the good ol' MHz war. especially since you're talking about the athlon. even with the numbers, is there anything terribly wrong here?
500, alright that looks a little bit on the low side. 1 MB of L2 @ 1/2 bus speed, last i checked that trumps both the P3 and athlon. 100 MHz FSB, there with the P3, trumped by the athlon. so rattling off the advertisers numbers the G4 sits somewhere betwixt the P3, and athlon. well maybe not quite. but...isn't the important thing performance?
i think there needs to be a brush up on apple's philosphy.
closed software, kinda'. sorta' open, mostly closed. compared to windows... i think i can finish there. seeing as you're using IE 5 i'm thinking a wee bit of hypocrisy has surfaced.
closed hardware. well i suppose that's true in the sense that not everyone and their sister can mock up a macintosh. then again, i'm pretty sure you couldn't walk to your local pc store and mock up a compaq, hp, dell, or ibm. those systems are just as closed as a system from apple. it just happens that 1) there's a helluva lot more hardware out there that can go into those, 2) they all happen to run the same OS. i'm not sure if that qualifies as an open hardware platform, just more prevalent.
i am aware of the dozens of mb out there and sure they all end up doing pretty much the same thing but an asus mb with a p3, and the remaining acoutrements don't make a dell do they?
so then, the outsides are based on something 20 years old? regardless, the core is still based on the pentium pro. i'm not sure if anyone could dispute that. toss in a better fab, couple extra instructions (SIMD, MMX), pump up the MHz and boom. P3. least intel could do is give a go like amd did.