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Posted by Matt Leese at 05/09/2001 6:08 PM EST


College Student on team #73, Tigerbolt, from Edison Technical HS and Alstom & Fiber Technologies & RIT.


In Reply to: Re: Prove my point
Posted by mike oleary on 05/09/2001 5:26 PM EST:



Methinks you need a lesson in who makes what. Intel
and AMD make processors that Microsoft's Windows
Operating System runs on (as well as other OSes
including Linux, OS/2, BeOS, etc.). Microsoft will
not ever make anything "faster" than a dual G4
because they don't make processors nor do they make
computers. Motorola makes the processor that Apple
uses in the computers they make. Apple also makes
the Macintosh OS. So let's look at competitors here.
Apple competes with Microsoft on software. Intel
and AMD compete with Motorola on hardware. You can
make software faster but normally you make software
slower by adding more features. You can also make
hardware faster. So really Intel and AMD don't make
anything faster than dual G4's (which is a claim I'd
debate -- speed is dependant on a lot of things
including what precisely you're doing and other
hardware besides the processor such as RAM, video
card, bus speed, hard drive speed, etc.). So at
least you can argue about the right things now...

Matt