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Subject: Re: AMD Unveils World’s Highest-Performing Processor for PCs

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 09:06:29 08/22/02

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On August 21, 2002 at 22:49:10, Zach Wegner wrote:

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>href="http://www.apple.com/powermac/processor.html">http://www.apple.com/powermac/processor.html</a>
>
>Wait, 2880 mhz... alright. Now exactly how many gigaflops does this processor
>perform at? Oh, it doesn't say... 2880 mhz seems so big, but Apple has been
>running faster than that chip for a few years now. Not to dual processing comes
>standard...


I find it interesting (strange, really) that the entire line of G4 Power Macs
(the towers) are now multiprocessor.  The lowest-end model is dual-867 MHz, and
the top-end is dual-1.25 GHz.  Do you know how many gigaflops they claim to be?



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