Originally posted by greenstork
Hope you're not too attached to that left testicle. You state all your points with such confidence, but in reality, you have no idea. None of us do.
I believe the next Powerbook revision will include a ramped up G3 with AltiVec, but I'm not betting any testicles on it.
edit: Also, I'm sorry to say that you don't really understand the meaning of overclocked. A chip, when it is produced, is tested and rated at a certain speed. Newer chips commonly don't have all the kinks worked out in the production process and are rated accordingly. As the production line matures, small improvements are made and the results are chips classified to run at a higher speed. So while you think it is overclocked, you're wrong. Just because it keeps getting hotter and hotter doesn't mean it's overclocked, it just means it's rated higher. It may just be that it was poorly designed to begin with but I just don't know enough to say.
Wow, you've hit upon the point that you should have thought of before that original poster posted the first time: "NONE OF US KNOW!" While he claimed his beliefs to be fact, I attempted to back mine up and gave evidence for what I believed. And I never claimed that it was anything more than a belief.
Also, yes, I am pretty attached to my leftie, but more importantly, everyone who reads these boards regularly (which I do) has said the same thing several thousands of times( about the overclocked, not the leftie), and more to the point, regardless of the techincal definition of "overclocked", of which you are so certain, what i meant is exactly what you said. They use more power and produce more heat. And most on the board who read the words "overclocked" virtually think of that word as having the same definition you've just given.
As far as whether or not the chips are graded at 1.5, I am merely echoing thousands of posters comments. More importantly, we have had much evidence that the G4's have reached their peaks, and that they were possibly going to "overclock" (try not to have a conniption [if you need a clue on the word "conniption", too, try dictionary.com]) them in the next rev.. So where is the contrary evidence? From a register rumor that is probably just copying the ever-fallible MOSR.com?
Finally, while I may have used teh word testicle in my post, it is not uncivil, nor is it explicit. Its a part of the human anatomy. And beyond that, the only offensive part of my post would have been "I think you are wrong" which, last I checked, is a disagreement, not being uncivil. I was merely attempting to assert confidence in my beliefs on the subject.
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