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To: FruJu who wrote (25051)	6/4/1999 1:12:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

<<instead pushed IBM to up the clock rate on their G3s, possibly moving to a "G3.5" design (with longer pipelines) to push the clock rate even harder.>> With some adventurous tinkering and a hefty cooling fan, you could try overclocking. RUMOUR: Look for a sticker on the G3 motherboard that says something like: "Do not remove or you violate the warranty" I hear the answer is under the sticker. Or you can Challenge the latest Pentium III to a race in the classic MacPlus running at 1Ghz: violet.berkeley.edu Of course it would have to be souped up and you will need a few parts: 5 feet of Duct Tape 1 Tube of Super Glue (Cyanoacrylate for those fellow chemists) 72 Keychains (30pin 256k SIMMs) 1 Dremel cutting tool Once you are done with the modification you will need approximately 1L liquid Nitrogen/hour of up time. If you have an external 800k floppy drive you will need an additional 0.2L LN2/hour. -Bill_H

To: FruJu who wrote (25051)	6/4/1999 6:13:00 PM
From: Richard Habib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Evan, agree with pretty much everything you say. Wonder if Altivec will turn out to be the first significant mistake since Apple's revival. Intel has successfully centered their marketing around Mhz. IBM is Apple's only option to compete in the Mhz game and Apple would have had such an easy time marketing similar Mhz machines vice using benchmarks and run offs. It would be significant if Apple can drop a speed bumped G3 into the Sawtooth board and so gain all the other advantages. Regarding Rambus, I'm a trader in that stock so I follow it. Obviously, there is pretty good controversy but rambus machines will ship in Sep. Samsung is already in volume production. Whether it will initially run at 400 Mhz (Front and back for 800) or 300, I don't think is clear yet. Whether it will show real world performance gains sufficient to offset initial costs is also up in the air. But there will be rambus machines in Sep. Rich