It¹s not just clock speed that determines a chip¹s performance. I¹m certain architectural changes have come a long way in two years and that under the hood improvements make the chips faster. On 11/1/06 3:46 PM, "net kat" <netkat at comcast.net> wrote: > No, they don't actually say that. that is my interpretation, and I base that > on the crowing that 2003's G5 was faster than higher-megahertz Intel-based > machines of the time. > > Assuming these new intel-based Macs are approximately the same Mhz rating, > that's where you see the contradiction > > > On Jan 11, 2006, at 2:42 PM, Nick Scalise wrote: > >> >> I don't see that Apple claiming a newer chip is faster is a 180 turn around. >> It's what they always do (it's what any computer company does). They got new >> chip, it's faster, they say so. >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20060111/79f59385/attachment.html