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Subject: Re: How fast will new MB and CPU combos be?

Author: Mark Young

Date: 15:53:25 03/17/98

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On March 17, 1998 at 15:31:39, Bela Andrew Evans wrote:

>Just read that Steve Jobs today was boasting that the new G3 powered
>apple computers are 3 times faster than Intel stuff.  Any one run
>any chess programs on the new 300 mhz G3 apples yet? And the new
>copper technology that IBM is starting to use has some people
>talking about the possibility of 800 mhz G-somethings in 99.
>Too bad there aren't more chess programs on that platform I guess --
>although their new operating system is supposed to run wintel stuff
>eventually right? Or already does? (I know next to nothing about
>MAC stuff, sorry in advance.)
>
>Again, opinions welcome!

You know I'm kinda skeptical about outrageous claims like this. I know
that it's faster but only about 20% faster from what I've
heard....although it probably is about 3x faster at running MAC
programs. ;)

                                                    Mark Young



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