The Megahertz Myth
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now even apple computers and laptops use intel!!
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@Uejji but it you had the g4 overclocked than that would be a lot faster still and with 2 g4s it world be over 100% faster than the pentium 4 because how small the g4 was thats why pentium 4's sucked back then
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@DonOfTheInternet You're right, of course.
Both pipelines begin at 5:43. Short finishes at 6:29, long at 6:51.
So, short takes 46 seconds, long 68 seconds. Adjusted for clockspeed, the long would have taken about 34 seconds. That would have put the processor with a 100% speed advantage at a mere 35% performance advantage.
Of course, it's all a theoretical demo.
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Shouldn't the P4 pipeline run twice as fast?
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Now sadly, everyone's fooled into the smartphone myth.
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My oh my...the times have changed, haven't they? Really enjoying watching some of these old Stevenotes.
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Well the Pentium 4 sucked
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Very good showing by apple, before their ethics went out the window and became rampant suing scumbags submitting shoddy manipulated evidence to legal courts.
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I hated Pentiums so much, but I do love the later CPUs such as the Core 2 Duo and i5/i7. I wish PowerPC did evolve further. It would be friggin' awesome. However, I like the recent Apple generation better; something just doesn't hit home with these new intel Macs and new iDevices like the iPhone and iPad, despite having both along with a 15" Mid 2009 MacBook Pro. Maybe it's because I still have my G4 tower and iMac G3. :)
I think this is the most technical thing I've ever heard at a mainstream Apple keynote.
drygnfyre 1 year ago 8
very good explanation of why pentiums sucked back then.
i'd have liked to see the PowerPCs evolve further... x86 has been a low-cost chip in the 80s after all..
ez45 1 year ago 8