The Logic Off Topic list

>You said that you think that Mac's being behind in speed will change soon.
>This would involve a doubling or tripling of speed and soon because the
>competition -- the thing that Macs are "behind" in your own words -- is
>rapidly progressing. This seemed unlikely to me. Macs will undoubtedly
>get
>faster but it seems unlikely that they will catch up unless they move to
>another processor.  (I argued in my post that the historical trend is one
>of X86 catching and overtaking RISC due to vastly greater R&D budgets.)

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the fact that PowerPCs are more 
efficient than Pentiums, and accomplish more per clock cycle. I think a 800 
mhz mac is equivalent to 1.2 gig pentium.

Also, the "R&D" argument is theory. You could say the same thing about 
Windows. Micro$loth has more money than they know what they do with - but 
Windows is still second rate. And what budget does Linux have?