New PPC Motherboard ?

[mikeymike]

IBM's newer (than 970) PPC offering produces half the heat the 970 does.  Definitely worth the wait IMO.

[mikeymike]

1 GHZ AMD is MUCH MUCH VERY MUCH SLOWER than a 1 GHZ G4.

No need for allcaps, we can read it just the same without them.

A 1GHz AMD processor, as new as possible, is still at least a year older than a 1GHz G4.  Please compare processors when they came out at the same time.  Otherwise what's to stop someone comparing a 3GHz P4 to a 1GHz G4.

And btw this argument has been done before so many times.  Yawn!

[mikeymike]

Is that an accurate figure? Or is it a best-guess? (I'm not wanting to start anything, I'm genuinely interested if that was a named figure!)

I think it's a pretend figure, particularly as AI and Genesi have been bitching about licensing for a *long* time now.

[mikeymike]

I think IBM's new-found enthusiasm for PPC (wrt the 970) is too recent to consider investing in.  It's a good sign of what I've heard about the next in the IBM PPC line being significantly better performance than the 970, while outputting half the heat, but whether the Amiga community will see the fruits of this remains to be seen.