Intel: Intel's
top 10 sneakiest moves & screwups, Glenn
Lortscher, Tuplay, 11/21. Bonus: Intel recalls Pentium 4!
The article covers recent problems, completely ignoring
the infamous Pentium
Math Bug of 1994 which resulted in Intel recalling
every Pentium ever made. In fact, a quick Sherlock search
for "Pentium" and "bug" shows every version of the
Pentium has been subject to at least one recall.
P4: Intel
introduces Pentium 4 chip, Yahoo/Reuters, 11/20.
Starting at 1.4 GHz, Intel projects P4 will reach 10 GHz
within five years. Motorola, are you listening?
P4: Intel's
new Pentium 4 processor, Tom's Hardware Guide, 11/20.
"Whatever Pentium 4 is right now, it is certainly not the
greatest and best performing processor in the
world."
P4: Pentium
4 ships: A disappointment at 1.5 GHz, PC World,
11/20. "In PCWorld.com tests, the new chip barely keeps
pace with the 1-GHz PIIIs used for comparison, and it
even fell behind these older systems on some
measures."
P4: Pentium
04. New chip, old problems, MacWeek, 11/20. "The PIII
design is running out of steam rapidly, but Intel's
slavish devotion to ever-increasing clock speeds has
resulted in some trade-offs that will disappoint the raw
speed addicts."
Apple
gains despite low-cost competition, c|net, 7/22. "For
the month of June, Apple Computer maintained its No. 3
ranking in the retail and mail-order market with strong
sales of the iMac...." And, by the way, the iMac was #1
in June.
What's
in a number?, Applelinks, 5/5 "Why should I pay over a thousand dollars for a 266 speed
[iMac] when I can get a PC at 350 for less?"
When
to buy a PC, MacKiDo, 5/3 "If you don't touch anything, and just use the machine as
a turnkey solution, they work fine."
Bell
tolls for the humble PC, The Age,4/17 "...in the professional area Apple's high-end G3
Macintoshes have reclaimed much of the ground they
earlier lost to Wintel machines and Windows NT."
Do
you need a Pentium III?, Jerry Pournelle, Byte.com,
4/12 "The question is why you would need a Pentium III to
begin with." Okay, Mac users don't - but it's still good
reading.
Intel's
64-bit Merced: Software Matters, Byte.com, 4/12 "Compiler software [not just hardware!] will play
a critical role in the performance of IA-64
microprocessors."
G3
vs. Pentium III, PC Magazine, 3/26 G3/400 handily beats P III/500 in FileMaker tests and all
but one Photoshop tests, but P III wins Microsoft Word
tests.
Pentium
III hits 500, "provides marginal improvements under
existing software," ZDNet, 2/23
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