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Date:      Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:42:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kyle <freebsd@sysmach.com>
To:        "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com>
Cc:        "Bzdik BSD" <bzdik@yahoo.com>, "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>, <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>, <lplist@closedsrc.org> <kris@obsecurity.org>, <mwlist@lanfear.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: the AMD factor in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20010419164255.E59852744@sitemail.everyone.net>

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--- "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com>
> wrote:
>> G4 stil runs without heatsink - doesn't qualify as a real CPU to me.
>> end :))
>
>Hell, seems like a 'realer' CPU to me !  Heatsinks are when we ran out of
>ideas for making a nice core/pipeline design, so we had to increase speed by
>ramping up the clock to insane speeds.
>
>I'm no Mac lover, but you have to admire the design of the Motorola G4

I sorta dislike Macs, as they're just weird, and I dont like their OS. But I agree that heatsinks and fans are solutions to increase CPU performance the easy way. Like athletes using drugs and stimulants. I'd give G4 the credit although I dont like Macs. :/

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