Power PC
The first Power PC with an x86 instruction set native will be
the 615. Originally, I'd heard the instruction set would be from a
486, but recently (in's at IBM) have hinted at a 586 instruction set,
natively. This would allow the Power PC 615 to clock at essentially
the same speed as a 100 mhz Pentium (this is not a fact, just an
opinion) only with (from the early tests I've seen) much, much faster
graphics capabilities… [GRIN!]
More powerful than that however would be native Power PC 3D
Studio…
Some neat specs from Computer Shopper:
Dell Omniplex 566 vs. Power Mac 7100/66
Dell Mac
Adobe Photoshop, open 10.5 meg Tiff: 100.7s 16.7
(Mac figures are PowerPC Beta version)
F.D. Painter, Apply Lighting: 367s 167s
-YG: Any thoughts on Power PC's?