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To: rx4pain who wrote (124627)	1/10/2001 10:54:25 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Which is a faster processor, the P4 or the G4? The fastest chip right now is the Alpha (from Compaq) - but it probably won't run the software you need to run. The fastest chip for productivity applications like Office, Excel, Pagemaker, or Powerpoint is the DDR Athlon. The fastest chip for Quake 3 and soon to be available video compression software is the P4. The G4 is the slowest, at least until 733 systems are actually available, and even then, it will probably lag the 3 above. Regards, Dan

To: rx4pain who wrote (124627)	1/11/2001 2:28:49 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

rxpain - Re: "The G4 is rated at 500MHz but its 128 bit as opposed to 1.4GHz but 64 bit." WRONG on both of them !! The G4 AND the P4 are 32 bit processors. Pick the applications you want/need to run - then pick the PC and OS that runs those the best. Paul

To: rx4pain who wrote (124627)	1/11/2001 2:52:10 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Rx, <Which is a faster processor, the P4 or the G4? The G4 is rated at 500MHz but its 128 bit as opposed to 1.4GHz but 64 bit.> I think you may have been listening to Mac fanatics a little too closely. The PowerPC G4 is considered to be a 32-bit processor. The only 128-bit stuff G4 does is their AltiVec features, but AltiVec is similar to the SSE and SSE2 features of Pentium 4. So if PowerPC is being called 128-bit, so should Pentium 4. So you're in the market for a new computer? For people who ask me this question, I ask them, "How much are you willing to spend?" I also ask, "How do you plan on using your computer?" You can get an excellent 866 MHz system from Dell for $1300 at www.dell4me.com. For people surfing the Internet and running the occasional game or other compute-intensive task, this computer should last you for at least three years. Tenchusatsu