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: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:59:06 -0800
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>> >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 STILL do it, because it's safer.

I guess you STILL read the outdated whymac literature then.  :)

They do have new benchmarks.

>They know that
>comparing G3s to PIIIs is tricky for them to spin and so they don't try.

ZDnet did a test on the 300MHz 750 and 500MHZ Intel, and found the intel to
be 5% faster.  Check out their www site.  I pointed this out yesterday.

>>IBM is working on ~700MHz and 1.3GHz models of its G3 chips to put into
>>desktops.
>
>So what?  AMD is working on 700MHz K7s and Intel has 1.5GHz projects going.
>Everyone has vaporware; it's meaningless till it comes out.

Its not vaporware.  Its 670MHz in the next 2-3 months.

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