Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:06:28 01/28/02
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On January 28, 2002 at 12:59:55, Daniel Clausen wrote: >Hi > >On January 28, 2002 at 11:55:01, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On January 28, 2002 at 11:44:00, Will Singleton wrote: >> >>>The new Mac G4's came out today, 933mhz and 1ghz versions. ... >> >> >>There's a dual 1 GHz version too. Given that the G4 often tests out as twice as >>fast per MHz than Intel/AMD chips, it should be FAST! > >In case of certain Photoshop filters, yes. But not in general. In general I'd >say a G3 roughly equals a P3 with +150Mhz, in case of a G4 maybe a P3 with >+250Mhz. > Fair enough (and much more polite than some). In that case, the equivalent of a dual-1.25 GHz P3 system would still be pretty fast, especially for Mac users who are accustomed to lower MHz's in recent years. And even Hiarcs 7.0 (for which there IS a Mac version) running on that system would be very strong IMO. >>If Hiarcs 8 comes out for Mac OS (and/or Mac OS X), might it be the strongest >>for any home computer? > >Since this is more than unlikely (IMO, YMMV), I won't speculate about that. :) > >Sargon
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