01-16-02, 11:38 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Acidburn
x86 procs run 32 bit. The processors in MAC's and the like run at 64 bit. So this Apple chips are twice as fast as their mhz rating is.
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I don't think that it's quite that simple. I thought that I read somewhere that although Mac CPUs are 64-bit, they have longer pipelines meaning that they don't do as much per clock as other 64-bit processors.
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