Re: TI-H: OT: The Ad I saw
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Re: TI-H: OT: The Ad I saw
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, J D wrote:
> I don't think so. What am I paying for with an iMac, exactly? "Cool
> factor?" Even you must admit they are grossly overpriced.
I hate even looking at those things. Plus, no floppy unless you go and
get a USB one? That really blows.
>
> What I'm "beating" is the Pentium Pro core architecture which actually IS
> competitive with the G3. In addition, the Pentium II/III has the advanced
> multimedia instruction set - which, if I'm not mistaken, the G3 lacks.
> Software written for the Katmai instructions will blow away the same
> software running on a Mac - mark my words.
>
Well, the powerPC will have altivec instructions that will blow away the
quickly throw together KMI imnstructions. KMI was made because intel
wanted to match 3dnow! with something of their own. I will give the
PowerPC that much credit. Its a nice proc, its just too bad that MacOS
sucks ass, unless its been majorly improved since 7.6. I hate user friend
OS's, and I hate that I can't lean back in my chair with a keyboard and
control my box. Thats what I do like about windows, you can control the
OS without a mouse. I almost got a PowerPC not too long ago, but I like
to have a Windows 95/98(not NT, I know 4.0 runs on PPC) for the few times
a year I play games. 99% of the time my machine runs in linux, and soon
BeOS. I know both of these OS's run on PPC but having windows around for
games is about its only use, along with a nice fast 3d card. I haven't
seen a 3d card for the PPC platform that can touch a nvidia tnt2 or matrox
g400 MAX.
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