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But intel (and AMD) scaled up MHz/GHz a lot further. Motorola was stuck at 500MHz as the Athlon and PIII were already racing to 1GHz.
by ido 3y ago
But intel (and AMD) scaled up MHz/GHz a lot further. Motorola was stuck at 500MHz as the Athlon and PIII were already racing to 1GHz.
- anthk 3y agoThe G4 at 800 MHZ was still much more powerful than a Pentium III, or at least on par.
- beebeepka 3y ago"much more powerful" is not anything like "on par". So what if that beautiful and expensive chunk of metal and plastic was slower in games and such?
- NikkiA 3y agoI had a dual-866MHz G4 (MDD) and in most things my Tualatin P3-1200 at the time absolutely beat it. But the G4 was worth using until it literally caught fire just after the warranty ended.
- gattilorenz 3y agoMotorola?
- 90sguy 3y agoMotorola has a long history of making processors, such as the 68000-series. They powered Macs (and Amiga) From Wikipedia: > The PowerPC 7xx is a family of third generation 32-bit PowerPC microprocessors designed and manufactured by IBM and Motorola (spun off as Freescale Semiconductor bought by NXP Semiconductors)
- ido 3y agoSupplier of the CPUs we're talking about (alongside IBM).
- mrweasel 3y agoMotorola was one of the companies behind the PowerPC, but those found in the iMac was made by IBM.