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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David S. who wrote (57048)	7/7/1998 4:10:00 PM
From: isdsms	Respond to of 58324

This is an area, mac vs pc, that i feel the mac wins hands down. Game software is the only area where owning a mac hurts. Maybe Rocky will comment for I know that he is a big mac fan. Fido....you still out there???

To: David S. who wrote (57048)	7/7/1998 11:30:00 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 58324

>>In any case, G3 is hot now, but in 3 months, the 400 Mhz PIIs will be below $1000, (can get full system now for $1400) and the Xeon processors will be commonplace. G3 will look like burnt toast. Sorry for the run-over visual metaphor.<< David - The big breakthrough in the Xeon is the fact that for the first time, Intel has a chip with L1 cache running at the same clock speed as the CPU, unlike all Pentiums and Pentium IIs, with cache speeds of half the CPU speed or less. (Or even no L1 cache, like the Celeron.) The G3 has had full-speed backside cache for several months now. The G3 is a faster, more efficient chip, which does more with each clock cycle. And by the time Xeon processors are common, and less than a thousand bucks (current price is 3,500 for the chip alone in lots of 1,000) there will be Macs based on the G4 chip, probably running at over 500 MHz. I agree that less software is written for the Mac, but what software there is is generally better quality, with fewer bugs. And as you yourself point out, you can always run SoftWindows 98 on your Mac. - Allen