[Ti] Recent MacWorld Magazine

[Chris Olson]

John Griffin wrote:

> They tested the Old 800 Mhz Powerbook against the newer 1 Ghz and 867 Mhz
> Powerbooks and there was almost no difference in speed between them! In fact
> in Quake III and Cinema 4D tests the 800 came out ahead!

I moved a zero ohm resistor in my 400 to make it clock 500 MHz and never 
noticed one bit of difference other than the System Profiler telling me 
the cpu is clocking 500 MHz.  Using Photoshop 7.0 or rendering movies 
with iMovie on either the 400 or my 800 I never notice any difference 
either.  I suppose you could split hairs and find an application that 
the 800 excels at over the 400, but in every day use, I don't see it. 
The Megahertz Myth might apply to more than just comparing Apples to 
PC's.  I think it's mostly sales hype - oooohhhh! ONE GIGA HURTS!  Gotta 
have it!!!  Sells computers.
-- 
Chris
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