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Re:Ultrabook: Intel's $300 million plan to beat Apple at its... by vetinari on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @01:19PM (#2966331)
Just like G4 and G5 had Altivec, Intel had MMX and SSE. Around the same time too, so it was not something magic for PPC.

As a owner of G3 and G4 machines, I can tell you that they were underperfoming. 7450 was slower than equivalent Pentium M (that's what was in PowerBooks and windows laptops at the time). Going back further, 466 MHz G3 couldn't keep decoding divx movie at SD resolution. 400 MHz P2 or 433 MHz celeron had no problems.

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Re:Ultrabook: Intel's $300 million plan to beat Apple at its... by wazoox on Saturday September 10, 2011 @04:45AM (#2981185)
10 years ago I compared the IO performance of a 450Mhz G4 running Yellowdog Linux to a PIII 700 Mhz server running RedHat, and the G4 literally blew the PC out of water IO-wise (disk, RAM and network performance), particularly running MySQL benchmarks, though slower in raw computing speed. So it depends upon your applications I guess, and your OS.
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