| [News] 1GHz Athlon released | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 09-Mar-2000 21:57 GMT by Christian Kemp | 32 comments
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Sauro quotes BoingWorld: According to the AMD website the Athlon 1GHz chip has been released, and the first boxes that will be available will come from Compaq & Gateway. You can read a review of the new Athlon chip here. See AMD's web site too.
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| 1GHz Athlon released : Comment 25 of 32 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by loic on 13-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT | Hello, everybody ! The problem with this kind of discussion is that everybody is right and everybody is wrong.
Yes, PPC have got a far superior design than x86, and who cares! Buy to CPU one PPC and one x86, if you don't
have motherboard, graphic cards around, they are totally useless, you can take the CPU
beetween your fingers and say the PPC is really most beautiful becoz it's more efficient,
on another hand, the x86 can have more raw power. You have got the same type of
arguments of the PC geeks people 6 years ago.
Let's face it, the amiga is not any more in the performance race, and who cares!
You have to use a computer, dont look at it! If you stop your arguments on the
effieciency if you never use it. Babylon5 was done on amiga becoz people use it instead
of speak about it! (and also becoz videotoaster was amiga only).
PPC motherboard appears only now (PowePc open platform), they are no drivers, so it's useless.
At the moment, it's more effiency to buy an x86 in fact, even if i largely agree with you
the "theoritical" PPC equivalent is a more elegant and efficient solution.
In 2 years the cpu will be 2ghz, the gfx card will be at 300mhz or more,
256mo+ ram, 40go hd, etc, etc... Just buy or use the computer wich fit your
needs. If you need 1Ghz, buy 1Ghz, if your 68k cpu does the work well, keep your 68k.
However, if you need a lot of raw power (mp3, video compression, rendering, you
don't have a lot of choice at the moment. The amigaos, mac and linux software
does not cope with the choice of Mickeysoft ones.
It's the same as for the cars, each car has got different engine power, handling, design,
colors, price, you choose your car with these paramaters.
If you like your old car, you can keep it, but if it use a special gasoline and
you find any more this gasoline in th gasstation, you canno't use any more your car.
It stays in the garage, and with a tear in the eyes, you'll say "that was a good car".
So if you don't want to say that, code new applications for your beloved amiga
and don't talk about mhz,
or stop to be hypocrite and use an x86 box to work and an amiga for nostalgia the week-end |
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