I’m also a little worse for wear, thanks to delays at Atlanta Airport on
On the heels of Intel’s release of it’s 1.13GHz Pentium iii Processor, AMD
released a 1.1GHz version of it’s Athlon chip. I’ll spare you the
mumbo-jumbo and get right to the meat. There are two differences between
the chip releases. First, there is a 33MHz speed difference, the Intel
chip being faster. Second, we’re more likely to see a 1.1Ghz Athlon than a
1.13GHz P3 on store shelves before October. You might ask why. Well,
as I mentioned earlier, Intel’s release was only a “Paper
Release.” Intel basically issued a press release saying they can make
1.13Ghz Chips. They can, I’ll give them that. Their problem is that
they can’t make them in enough quantity in order to make people think they
aren’t imaginary. Meanwhile, I’ve actually heard of sightings of the
1.1Ghz AMD on store shelves in Asia. Soon to follow will be the big city
sittings in the US, and so on, until it shows up on store shelves in Bumfuct
Oklahoma in 2007. For once in my life it’s nice to see Intel struggling
for an extended period of time. To follow up on the buying of AMD Stock, I
hate to say that I haven’t. Instead, I found a local (or not so) local
Cable TV/INET company that has a really low stock price, and has recently been
buying out other companies. In a year, I’ll be rich…(Email me for the
Ticker Symbol)
Macs and PCs
The Battle has been going on ever since the days of the Intel 8088.
Which computer is better, a Mac based, or PC based computer? Graphics
Experts and Video Editing Gurus will die a glorious death for their beloved Mac,
while mainstream business and gamers alike would kill the Mac owners if their
PCs told them to. What’s the actual difference between the two
systems. It comes down to processing abilities. As always, I think
of the basic internal workings of a CPU as a Super Highway. Let’s compare
a 500Mhz G4, and a 1Ghz Athlon system. Both have about the same
power when it comes to crunching numbers. One might not think so because
of the chip speed. In all actuality, chip speed is only half of
game. The other half comes in when dealing with the size of the road, so
to speak.
For the sake of simplicity, think of the speed in MHz of each chip as the speed
limit on the Super Highway. Bits ( 1s and 0s) of information can go at 500
Kilometers Per second in a G4, and 1000 Kilometers per Second in an Athlon (not
actually, we’re just comparing.) One might think the Athlon get’s more
bits though in any given period of time, but that’s false. The G4’s Super
Highway is twice as wide as the Athlons. It’s actually 128 lanes wide,
while the thin little Athlon is only 64 lanes wide. So, in the course of
one minute, the G4’s Highway sees 3,840,000 bits, while the Athlon’s also sees
3,840,000 bits, if speeds were what I said they were earlier. We can see
that the difference between actually raw data crunching is slim to none.
Other parts of the computer as a whole, make it so that that there is a computer
for every type of person. It just so happened, that the Mac fell in to the
Graphics and Video notch, while the PC was the major business computer for the
first twenty years of home and office computing.
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