Re: TI-H: (OT about Grant's 486/68000)

Re: TI-H: (OT about Grant's 486/68000)

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• Subject: Re: TI-H: (OT about Grant's 486/68000)
• From: Grant Stockly <gussie@stockly.com>
• Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 18:40:21 -0800
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>OK, Grant, that's just not true.  I mean, really now.  MAYBE a G3/400 and a
>PII/400 might be somewhat on par as far as gfx operations and multimedia go,
>but the Pentium III is just plain better than G3 chips.

Nope.

>Benchmarks have
>proved it.

Its the other way arround.  Look at PC Magazine's review of the 500 PIII
compared to a Mac.

>I love how Macintosh compares its laptops with G3 processors to
>Pentium-I class laptops!

They did that when PIs were the only ones available.

>They're not SUPPOSED to be competitive with G3s,
>the P/IIs are with their P-Pro core logic!


IBM is working on ~700MHz and 1.3GHz models of its G3 chips to put into
desktops.

Apple is working on a computer to use the 670MHz chip.

Grant

• TI-H: (OT about Grant's 486/68000)
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