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To: BillHoo who wrote (17676)	9/8/1998 12:35:00 PM
From: Andrew Danielson	Respond to of 213172

<<Is that because of the PPC chip or because the Mac motherborad and OS architecture are much more efficient?>> I will scream my response to this one. The answer is definitely the POWER PC CHIP. Apple's OS architecture is what is preventing the chip from performing even FASTER relative to Wintel. That is why you see ByteMark and other similar tests--which measure only chip performance without reference to software or the OS--absolutely clobbering the Intel chips. This advantage is diluted (but still there) when the Mac OS is accounted for in real-world testing. But this is where OS X comes in. Besides providing more features and stability, X will also be a newer OS architecture that can more effectively take advantage of the inherent speed of the PPC chips it runs on. We'll finally get to see the kind of speed differential the ByteMark tests have been pointing to all along. Andrew