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Originally Posted by bronco67
Intel VP & CTO Pat Gelsinger said a 15GHZ Pentium "5" will be here by 2010. The current P4 will top out at 10GHZ. 5GHZ PDAs will be here by 2010 too.
At the current rate increase of about 200MHZ per year, Macs will be probably hitting about 3-4GHZ, maybe 5GHZ by 2010, unless Apple ports Max OS to x86.
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That article was dated in 2002. There's never going to be a pentium 5, they stopped giving them numbers.
Things have slowed down considerably in the last 3 years -- cpu speeds have been hovering in the 3.0ghz to 3.8ghz range. A wall has been hit. I don't think the Intel guy who said that in 2002 was factoring that into the equation.
Chips will get to 10ghz, but it might be further away. Always check the date of a web blurb, been guilty of not doing it myself.
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P4s topped out at 3.6 and ghz isn't really how they rate performance anymore. Back in the 80's when I was a teenager it was all about the RAM. Most friends had computers that topped out at 64 MB then one of the richer ones got a IBM that had 512 MB of RAM. That meant he had the better computer supposedly. A core 2 duo that runs at 2.2 ghz performs better than a 3.6 ghz P4 could.