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To: Adam Nash who wrote (29239)	10/10/2000 12:50:49 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213176

>>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".<< Adam - As I said in my previous post, I do think Motorola needs to get speeds up, but your comparison is not exactly fair or correct. First, the P4 1.5 GHz chip isn't shipping, and won't for months. Let's compare current products to other current products. Also, there have been some reports that the P4 actually benchmarks 20 to 25% SLOWER than the PIII. Admittedly, these reports have not been verified by credible sources. Nonetheless, Intel continues to have problems even getting reasonable quantities of their 1 GHz chip out the door, and they've had to recall the 1.13. - Allen

To: Adam Nash who wrote (29239)	10/10/2000 6:46:31 PM
From: Edward Boghosian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

When you say the G4e is scary do you mean its power would be awesome or it is not sufficient an advancement?

To: Adam Nash who wrote (29239)	10/11/2000 1:57:54 AM
From: FruJu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

These rumors of 700-800Mhz G4e shipping in Summer 2001 are very real and very scary. If you're an AAPL shareholder, you can only hope to high heaven that these reports aren't true. 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. Apparently V'ger was reassigned to the 7-stage G4 pipe unveiled last year. The SOI effort is Apollo. My understanding is that the multi-core effort has indeed slipped to the G5, whenever the hell that may be :-(. Meanwhile, IBM is ready to ship dual-core 1GHz Power 4s early next year which will wax anything Motorola has to offer.