I love how all these chips have "code names." I think we should give code names to our UT players. Death, code named "Hammer." Skank, code named "Codpiece." Etc.<br><br>In a follow up to Skank's post: <br>********************************<br><br>IBM is announcing the PowerPC 970 chip, which is due out next year at speeds of up to 1.8GHz.<br>At the level of "2x gigahertz, we will compete very reasonably against the (Intel) Pentium," said Chekib Akrout, vice president of microprocessor development at IBM Microelectronics. <br><br>"This is another situation where frequency is not a good indication of performance," said Krewell. PowerPC chips are "losing the gigahertz race, but with all the performance (IBM) packed into this architecture, it's going to be competitive with the performance of the Pentium 4 in 2003." <br><br>Let's be serious here. If they actually think that speeds of 1.8GHz *next year* are going to lure consumers in, they have another thing coming. I predict another losing year for Apple. On the upside, at least Apple is getting rid of Motorola. <p></p><i></i>
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