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Do You Recall The Recall? (11/30/00)
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And you thought the PowerPC had problems! Well, okay, you're right-- the PowerPC does have problems, but that's not really directly germane to the point we're trying to make. What we're trying to imply is that something or someone else has bigger problems even than those of the manufacturers and purchasers of the PowerPC, so that by comparison, the PowerPC's problems are, hyperbolically speaking, practically nonexistent. Get it? Look, never mind... we'll start again.
Here's the skinny: faithful viewer Scott Pennington set us all a-flutter by pointing out a PC World article about that new-fangled Pentium 4's continuing woes. You already know that early performance reviews have shown that, despite being 500 MHz faster in terms of clock speed, for many office-style tasks, a 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 is actually slower than a 1 GHz Pentium III. That fact alone probably has the mucky-mucks at Intel reaching for the Advil. But now it seems that several Best Buy stores have yanked P4-based computers off of their shelves, due to "excessive heat and inadequate performance."
Now, even though it's apparently not Intel itself issuing the recall, that's still gotta hurt. Especially since it was only three months ago when Intel was forced to recall every single 1.13 GHz Pentium III due to an "erratum." Is it just us, or does it really seem like the rush to attain ever-increasing clock speeds is doing more harm than good? Maybe Motorola's got the right idea after all: take your time and make sure your products actually work before shipping them. Then again, in the time Motorola's spent working to get past 500 MHz, a roomful of monkeys could have hammered out the script to Hamlet. We can't help but figure that there must be a happy medium in there somewhere. Perhaps Intel should lay off the caffeine and Motorola could stop drinking NyQuil for breakfast or something. Just a friendly suggestion.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 11/30/00 episode: November 30, 2000: The Naked Mole Rat is back-- and he bears tales of Mac OS X's long-awaited release. Meanwhile, rumor has it that Apple's trying to enlist new PowerPC partners, and poor Intel takes another beatdown as Pentium 4 systems are recalled due to heat and performance problems...
Other scenes from that episode: 2711: OS X: Waiting For The Man (11/30/00) Well, smack us with a rebar and call us an ambulance-- just when we had all but given up hope of this shindig dying a sad, lingering death, the Naked Mole Rat has finally arrived fashionably late! His latest appearance comes a solid month and a half after the last one, and that one occurred a month and a half after its predecessor, so either the Artist Formerly Known As The Knife is slowing down in his old age, or he's just on some kind of bizarre psychological and/or drug-induced six-week cycle... 2712: Motorola, Shmotorola! (11/30/00) Speaking of mainstays on the Mac rumors scene, the granddaddy of the rumorological web has been kicking out some pretty thought-provoking stuff lately. Just yesterday we were huddled around the water cooler talking about that alleged "faster G4 release schedule" (well, that and Joyce's brain tumor on Buffy-- it's so sad!), and then Mac OS Rumors goes ahead and tops itself with these whispers of new PowerPC partners...
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