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Future & Today

     In the not so distant future 2 new processors will come on the market the P4 and the G5. But which on will be faster ?  By far the G5. Unlike Intel's Pentium the Motorola G4 can process a lot of information at a time. The Pentium can only process a small amount of information at a time making it back log and ultimately be come slower. 

The G5 on average is 2.20x faster than a Pentium but it can get to be 5.83x faster than a Pentium. So is your Mac is 500mhz its about the equivalent to a P3 that is 1ghz (1000mgz)   

The Velocity Engine
The secret of the G4’s revolutionary performance is its aptly named Velocity Engine. It’s the heart of a supercomputer miniaturized onto a sliver of silicon. The Velocity Engine can process data in 128-bit chunks, instead of the smaller 32-bit or 64-bit chunks used in traditional processors (it’s the 128-bit vector processing technology used in scientific supercomputers — except that we’ve added 162 new instructions to speed up computations). In addition, it can perform four (in some cases eight) 32-bit floating-point calculations in a single cycle — two to four times faster than traditional processors.

The Super Computer                                                                                   The G4 is a super computer. Before 1997 super computers where only used in science.  But almost no one outside the scientific community could possibly need one. Until 1998, with the rise of the internet MP3, DVD, 3D games and multi tasking. Now scientists use computers at 3-5ghz (3000-5000mhz), but with in 5 years that will be standard.