Re: TI-H: OT: The Ad I saw


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Re: TI-H: OT: The Ad I saw




>On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, J D wrote:
>
>> I don't think so.  What am I paying for with an iMac, exactly?  "Cool
>> factor?"  Even you must admit they are grossly overpriced.
>
>I hate even looking at those things.  Plus, no floppy unless you go and
>get a USB one?  That really blows.
>>
>> What I'm "beating" is the Pentium Pro core architecture which actually IS
>> competitive with the G3.  In addition, the Pentium II/III has the advanced
>> multimedia instruction set - which, if I'm not mistaken, the G3 lacks.
>> Software written for the Katmai instructions will blow away the same
>> software running on a Mac - mark my words.
>>
>
>Well, the powerPC will have altivec instructions that will blow away the
>quickly throw together KMI imnstructions.  KMI was made because intel
>wanted to match 3dnow! with something of their own.  I will give the
>PowerPC that much credit.  Its a nice proc, its just too bad that MacOS
>sucks ass, unless its been majorly improved since 7.6.  I hate user friend
>OS's, and I hate that I can't lean back in my chair with a keyboard and
>control my box.  Thats what I do like about windows, you can control the
>OS without a mouse.

Two words and a conjunction.  Shareware or Linux

>I almost got a PowerPC not too long ago, but I like
>to have a Windows 95/98(not NT, I know 4.0 runs on PPC) for the few times
>a year I play games.  99% of the time my machine runs in linux, and soon
>BeOS.  I know both of these OS's run on PPC but having windows around for
>games is about its only use, along with a nice fast 3d card.  I haven't
>seen a 3d card for the PPC platform that can touch a nvidia tnt2 or matrox
>g400 MAX.

Have you ever seen some of ATIs cards?  They're fine.


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