Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Philip Gooch Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: How about those new machines from Apple? Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 16:45:15 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 13 Message-ID: <37CD4A0B.F6DB76DE@easynet.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.131.140.238 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en Apple have announced some great new Macs today. Apparently, they're the first 'supercomputers' to be publicly available, because they can process over one gigaflops. Intels own tests rate the new machines up to 3 times faster than a 600MHz Pentium III. Yet the prices start at $1500. Seems like Apple are taking a leaf out of Sony's book, what with describing the machine as a supercomputer and talk of the G4 processor's new 'Velocity engine'. Shame I just brought a new G3 just the other week. Oh well! Phil