[ale] OT: MicorCenter and new iMacs

[william at fragakis.com (William Fragakis)]

They are using Pentium Ms (iirc) which are descendants of PIIIs and a 
departure from the P4 architecture. They run slower clock speeds but 
are as or more efficient in the same way G5s and AMD run slower clock 
speeds but have similar performance to P4s.

I don't remember the particulars off-hand of instructions per clock 
cycle, etc. I did see something a few months ago how the slower Ms 
spanked P4s in certain benchmarks. The other benefit is they run 
relatively cooler - the attraction for Apple which needs a high 
performance laptop chip.

regards,
William


On Feb 1, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> I just saw the new iMacs in the MicroCenter circular and thought that
> the CPU speeds were a tad slow.  I was expecting them to use 3.0ghz
> chips instead.  Am I wrong?  Or is this maybe a way to get more cash by
> selling hardware that is faster?
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>