Re: OT- Buying new computer, which way to go?

"David J Taylor"
<david-taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

New Macs can now run Windows as well, and they use the same Intel
chips..... They have given up using slow-speed chips.


Funny how Apple used to claim that their PowerPC chips were so much
more efficient than the competitors' Intel Pentium processors that
they worked much faster despite having slower clock speeds.

When Apple changed to Intel they immediately claimed that the Intel
chips were much faster than PowerPC.

;-)

[BTW, I use both a Mac (Powerbook G4) and an Intel dual core PC.]

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