I-bwee (Intel Macs)
When I first heard that Apple is switching to Intel I felt betrayed, but now I have different spin.
Look at the current top Ghz speed of the G4, G5, and Pentium 4 as I know.
G4 = 1.67 Ghz
G5 = 2.7 Ghz
P4 = 3.8 Ghz
The P4 has over twice the top clock speed of the G4. Yes, Ghz isn't everything and Apple speeds their machines with Velocity Engines, but that's not good enough for a company that wants to be an industry leader. So by switching to Intel Apple should be able to make faster, better Macs.
Also, I wonder if they can make Velocity Engines for the new Intel Macs. If Apple could get Intel Macs with Velocity Engines, high Ghz processors, and optimized programs the Intel Mac will rock the PC world.
(For an interesting take read this.)
posted by Daniel Bird @ 7:59 PM
2 Comments:
yeah, i'm holding all my comments aside until i see and play with a new "intel inside" mac, who knows it could be the sweetest move ever?
The thing you have to remember is that clock rate isn't everything...A 3 ghz processor isn't necessarily going to be faster than 1.5 ghz processor. The clock rate is just one way to measure microprocessor performance. Yes Intel cranks their clock rates up (a tactic they've employed to "make" faster chips for some time now) but the real question is how much data is actually getting through the pipleline (not just how fast it's going).
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