At 7:48 AM -0800 1/11/06, Crandon David wrote: >So the new dual core Intel chips are 2-4 times faster than the >PowerPC chips they replaced of approximately the same speed. What >I'd like to know is how fast are the Intel dual core chips compared >with the soon to depart PowerPC dual core chips. Is there anything that shows how much faster the PPC dual core chips are compared to the 2.1Ghz G5 iMac? Zane -- -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |