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Article #2893Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Chad Irby
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 16:40
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 16:40
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Martin Nisshagen (martin@mts.se) wrote: : Garby Leon wrote: : : > Ppro will go to 300Mhz easily. You can bet the farm on that. : : From that I heard from Intel it will go even higer than that. It : seems like the PPro is designed to scale well with increased clock : rates. Unfortunately, from the things I've heard lately, the big problem won't be scaling the clock- it'll be scaling the heat sink. A 300 MHz PPro won't be much fun if you have to buy a quart of liquid nitrogen every time you want to recalc a spreadsheet. -- Chad Irby / My greatest fear: that future generations will, cirby@gate.net / for some reason, refer to me as an "optimist."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gate.net!not-for-mail From: cirby@gate.net (Chad Irby) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Date: 18 Jan 1996 11:40:07 -0500 Organization: CyberGate, Inc. Message-ID: <4dlt57$2552@seminole.gate.net> References: <4de04d$ekmm@navajo.gate.net> <4depr4$qaq@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <30FDBA10.196E@mts.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: seminole.gate.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0]