More PPC 970/750 Rumors (Possible Information)

[whooleytoo]

Originally posted by Catt
I can't remember any specific examples but I have read reviews where USB2 external CD-RWs have been faster than Firewire400 drives.

The main benefit of Firewire, as far as I can see, is that it has a greater capacity to power devices than USB 1.1 or USB 2.

If you remember the link, I'd love to read it. All the benchmarks I've seen had FireWire devices either level or faster by a substantial margin.

Mike.

 

[Catt]

Originally posted by 68k_575
If Apple wants to go anywhere with these 970's, they have to take a page from AMD's book and advertise the speeds being different than they really are. They could say that a 1.8 GHz 970 is the same as a 3.6 P4, and it would take off, because what PC users want (even Internet and email types) is lots of MHz, whether they need it or not.

Yeah but you have to be carefull. Some of AMD's equivalents are just not true, for example their 3200+ processor is actually about as fast as a P4 at 2.8 Ghz not a P4 at 3.2Ghz.
If Apple wants to play this game it needs to make sure it gets it right.