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From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_floodgap.com>
Date: Fri Jan 21 07:19:48 2005

> >Granted, if you are doing video work, I can see that even the fastest of
> >the G4's may just not be fast enough. But if that is the case, I assume
> >you are either after a dual processor G5 Tower, or you just aren't
> >serious about your video work (considering there is no match to it in the
> >Windows world.) :-)
>
> My 3-year-old Athlon MP box would beg to differ -- it took a couple of
> years for Macs to catch up to *it*.

If you're talking clock speed, people in the Athlon world particularly should
know clock speed is not the whole story because AMD chips are also
underclocked compared to the "comparable" Intel. In fact, I would be very
disappointed if list members here bought into that crap, given the fact that
there are large numbers of heterogenous architectures used and supported.

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