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To: OrionX who wrote (29238)	10/10/2000 12:35:10 AM
From: Adam Nash	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213176

OrionX, The Velocity Engine is certainly impressive, especially compared to the PIII vector extensions to MMX. However, these instructions are just not used often enough to really compete with the ubiquity of normal, plain vanilla integer operations. A P4 at 1.5Ghz will just be much faster for everyday use than a dual G4/500. Sure, you might get a few Photoshop benchmarks to go faster. But in general, this is not a time to pretend "it's all OK". I am a long time AAPL fan, former employee, and current long. But the current G4 situation is really really bad. The fact that it has not hurt Apple yet is a testament to product marketing savvy, but it is still a stretch. Apple likely made "the wrong" choice my going with Motorola's VMX program in 1995/6 instead of the accelerated G3 concept from IBM. But that's neither here nor there. The point is what to do from here. It looks like the powers that be at Apple still think the G4 is the path, so I hope they are betting on some 1Ghz clock speeds in 2001. These rumors of 700-800Mhz G4e shipping in Summer 2001 are very real and very scary. My guess is that the migration to MP that has just begun is planned to dovetail with the V'ger effort to place multiple G4 cores on a single die. Not sure if that has slipped into G5 world at this point, however.