Still no word about Newer's G4 for iMacs? — #23
Yeah, the Athlon is a RISC CPU emulating the x86 complex instruction set. However, I've read something that it is a small fraction of the x86 instructions which are used 99% of the…
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Still no word about Newer's G4 for iMacs? — #24
No, its not really possible that AMD would ever make a mac compatible chip. I read a 12 page comparison of the Athlon and the G4 once, and the G4 was a much more clean, efficient,…
Still no word about Newer's G4 for iMacs? — #25
I didn't say that the Athlon to be modified to emulate a G4. I said that AMD has the expertise to make one up from scratch, faster and neater (and hotter). I really doubt some comp…
Still no word about Newer's G4 for iMacs? — #26
For some reason, people don't seem to make the connection between gigaflops and MIPS. A gigaflop = 1 BIPS (billion instructions per second). A megaflop = 1 MIPS (million instructio…
Still no word about Newer's G4 for iMacs? — #27
Sorry guys, that's what fridays do to my brain.
Now, I'm with Godfather on this. AMD is the only company that could take Apple out of the MHZ basement. And at a much lower cost t…