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To: soup who wrote (13179)	5/9/1998 5:18:00 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Respond to of 213177

Soup, Thanks for the MacKido link on the AltiVec article.I finally got around to reading it. The article reinforces what I first thought - when an AltiVec PowerPC runs the Mac and when software is written to use AltiVec - the Mac will scream. Graphics, particularly 3D modeling, color and texture rendering, and animation should approach, if not equal, workstation capability. For about $1000. Huh? Jeff

To: soup who wrote (13179)	5/16/1998 2:05:00 AM
From: Jeff Hayden	Respond to of 213177

Soup, Check out Henry Norr's technology writeup at: zdnet.com It looks like Apple's not going to leave any new technology stone unturned as they come out with new machines. Of particular interest: Power Mac models due in the first half of next year, Apple said, will incorporate AltiVec, the PowerPC extensions announced earlier this month by Motorola (see Page 23). Apple said the technology will deliver a 30-fold increase in performance on "media-rich algorithms." It includes enhancements tailored for decoding MPEG movies and compressed audio, texture mapping and 3-D rendering, image processing and telephony. Aha! Just as I guessed. The AltiVec PowerPC Mac will be wonderous and, ultimately, cheap. Further: Apple's new hardware engineering leaders described plans for a "grand, unified architecture," embodied in a pair of application-specific, integrated circuits that will be used in future desktop and portable Macs. Reducing low-level differences among Mac models will speed development and testing, "letting us ride the technology curve much faster," said Glen Miranker, Apple vice president of desktop engineering. Jeff