Lots of people predict a speed bump to 1 GHz for the top of the line iMAC at MWSF'03. Why not bump it to 1.25 GHz? Is the heat a major issue? Or would that bring the iMac to close to the PowerMacs? Is the slow bus the problem?
I'm itching to buy my first Apple since the Apple IIe I had when I was 14... (BTW, anyone remember the game "Aztec" on the Apple IIe? I want a port of that, pretty please...
) That Apple has moved to a Unix backbone goes a long way in convincing me to switch (back). I've done lots of number crunching at Uni on multi-user Unix systems, so I've grown used to that OS.
But I also used to be a heavy PC gamer (competing in the German LM-CTF Quake national league...), so wondering how many fps you can squeeze out of the machine is kind of second nature, even though I play Nethack mostly these days... An additional .25 GHz may mean little in terms of everyday use, but it sure would make me feel better about buying the machine...
Cheers,
Ingo
I'm itching to buy my first Apple since the Apple IIe I had when I was 14... (BTW, anyone remember the game "Aztec" on the Apple IIe? I want a port of that, pretty please...
) That Apple has moved to a Unix backbone goes a long way in convincing me to switch (back). I've done lots of number crunching at Uni on multi-user Unix systems, so I've grown used to that OS.But I also used to be a heavy PC gamer (competing in the German LM-CTF Quake national league...), so wondering how many fps you can squeeze out of the machine is kind of second nature, even though I play Nethack mostly these days...
An additional .25 GHz may mean little in terms of everyday use, but it sure would make me feel better about buying the machine... Cheers,
Ingo
