[Ti] 1.5ghz Powerbooks and 'sysctl hw.cpufrequency' command...

[Dr. Trevor J. Hutley]

At 14:07 -0400 10/5/04, John Griffin wrote:
>It seems Apple has come to terms with the erroneous results given with the
>'sysctl hw.cpufrequency' command that is displayed on previous Powerbooks
>with the new Powerbooks. On my new 1.5ghz Powerbook it returns 1499999994!
>
>Hmmm! where did that .000000006Mhz go?

John - similarly, my 1.25 GHz Al-book shows 1249999995 Hz

So I am missing 5 Hz.
It's really noticeable.
It adds about 2 nanoseconds to opening an image.

I think you are missing much more, 6 Hz actually.

regards, Trevor the better mathematician.