Author: Frank E. Oldham
Date: 18:33:37 03/23/05
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On March 23, 2005 at 20:46:09, Peter Stayne wrote: >:) oops! :) > >A bit disappointing though, I was among those excited to see Apple embracing >POWER5 as I like to see some competition for the x86 architecture. I'm very >happy to see AMD starting to make strides in market share versus Intel, would be >nice to see a whole other architecture in the mix at the top. The G5 still uses the 970 or 970FX which are POWER4 derivatives. For a machine which is now 1.5 years old, crafty bench of 2.6 mnps is pretty good -- only the dual opterons and dual 3.4 Xeons beat that, and a dual 2.5 should bench over 3.2 mnps. Processor upgrades are expected "real soon now" -- if you want to speculate, search for the 970MP and IBM-Sony CELL technology. Frank
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