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Fastest Back To The Factory (8/29/00)
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It's finally happened: we've witnessed the first casualty in the recent escalation of the Megahertz Wars. Faithful viewer Joey McNair was the first to note the battle damage sustained by Intel's recently-released 1.13 GHz Pentium III; according to a ZDNet article, the company is recalling every single one of the current reigning clock-speed-champions due to a bug an erratum. Anyone up for some long division?
Here's the deal: reportedly there's something wrong with those 1.13 GHz speed demons that shipped a month ago, which can cause freezes when the chip operates "within certain temperatures and certain code sequences (in applications)." Intel has announced that it's "not happy with the chip" and is therefore yanking it back; it'll rework the processor to fix the problem and the chip will be "back on the market in a couple of months." So much for taking the lead in the clock speed races; Intel's score drops back to 1 GHz, while according to a CNET article, AMD has just started shipping its 1.1 GHz Athlon. (Of course, we should probably wait and see if those get recalled in a month, too.)
By the way, for those of you stabbing frantically at the Contact button to insist the G4 was actually the first casualty of the Megahertz Wars, it wasn't; sure, it's been in a 500 MHz development coma for a year and thus free from the exhausting grasp of Moore's Law, but it's still breathing and at least it hasn't been recalled. Still fuming about the G4's anemic-looking clock speed? Well, frankly, so are we-- but we'd rather have the Mac community plugging happily away on dual 500 MHz G4s for another six months than have Apple recall every Power Mac G4/750 it ships. That doesn't mean we're going to cut the Motorola PowerPC folks any slack, because they're still way behind the curve when it comes to raw megahertz... but we'd like them to do things right instead of just quickly.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 8/29/00 episode: August 29, 2000: Apple has learned the identity of the mysterious "worker bee"; are the other "John Does" next on the hit list? Meanwhile, some people still expect new gear at today's Seybold Stevenote, despite Apple's own claims to the contrary, and Intel got a little sloppy in its rush to beat out AMD-- all 1.13 GHz Pentium IIIs are being recalled...
Other scenes from that episode: 2512: Book Him, Steve-O (8/29/00) If you're leaking inside Apple info, you may want to duck and cover-- the Does are sprouting names. Earlier this month, when Apple filed suit against "John Doe 1" and claimed that "John Does 2 through 25" acted as accomplices, we were amused that the company was actually suing twenty-five people it couldn't identify... 2513: Third Time's The Charm (8/29/00) Down here at the AtAT studios, we're big fans of Go2Mac and its predecessor, O'Grady's PowerPage. Over the years we've gotten a lot out of those sites, and also from commentary written by their proprietor, Jason O'Grady, and posted at MacWEEK and ZDNet...
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