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Subject: Re: I don't think that the Tungsten T is 10X Faster , NOT even 6X Faster

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 07:47:22 12/15/02

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On December 15, 2002 at 10:27:23, Tord Romstad wrote:

>>That means that at this time your ARM processor is just executing 68000 code.
>>So it's extremely slow.
>
>The advertising I have seen want us to believe that the ARM Palms are usually
>faster than the 68000 Palms, even when executing 68000 code in emulation.  I
>was probably a bit too optimistic when I believed in this.

It's strictly speaking not untrue.

Your TigerMark suggests that the Tungsten runs Tiger a tiny bit faster
than the default 33Mhz Dragonballs.

>My
>estimate is that the playing strength is around 1700-1800 elo on my Palm (while
>Genius feels more like 1400-1500).

Told you so :)

--
GCP



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