Not sure how that works since the chips aren't made by Intel, they're made
by Motorola, from IBM designs.
The same chip is used in the pSeries (formerly RS/6000). Too bad you can't
get one of those bad boys. Probably the equivalent of 10Ghz.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "R.Jackson" <jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 2:26 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: What if...
>
> Oh, I was mostly commenting on how Steve Jobs had announced that we'd
> have 3 GHz G5 machines by the end of the year and then Intel stiffed
> him on delivery so Apple had to get their speed increase (though only
> to 2.5 GHz) by pushing the chips so hard that they've had to include a
> liquid cooling system on the new G5s. The whole thing this year has
> been enough to give anyone a tic. ;-)
>
> Nah, I'm perfectly happy with my Quicksilver machine. When slightly
> faster G5 machines with PCI Express graphics come out I'll grab one of
> those and use my Quicksilver as a dedicated ProTools machine. I can't
> imagine ever willingly going back to using a WinTel machine, no matter
> what the clock speed.
>
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