Word: mhz
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...excellent tool for Stein harassment, it can't compete with my daughters in the clearing-the-dinner-table department. Indeed, while Cye's offspring may grow up to be butlers and bartenders, today's robot is best used as an educational toy. You control it via your 133-MHz-or-faster PC. A small radio antenna plugs into the PC's communications port and, with the help of Cye's Map-N-Zap software, beams instructions to the robot. Before heading out on an excursion, Cye must be placed on a "home base," an electric pad that doubles...
Pentiums are the workhorse chips found in most PCs in the $1,000-to-$2,500 range. The fastest are Pentium IIIs that run at 500 MHz, perfect for 3-D games like the upcoming Quake III. Celerons are discount chips found in many sub-$1,000 PCs. They are cheaper and slower because they have less short-term cache memory. Xeons are Intel's fastest chips (with up to four times the cache of Pentiums) and are used only for corporate servers...
Hardwaremakers are also being hurt because softwaremakers aren't producing the power- and memory-sucking innovations that made consumers and businesses race out to upgrade their machines. The next big app, Microsoft's Windows 2000, is likely to require only a 300-MHz processor, already standard in today's bargain-basement PCs. So M. Lewis Temares, vice president of information technology at the University of Miami, figures that besides a few university officials who need high-octane processors for such things as complex med-school accounting software, his people are fine with the hardware in place...
...prices go? How about zero? A new service, Free-pc.com offers a free 300-MHz PC if you are willing to devote one-eighth of your desktop to a perpetual series of scrolling banner advertisements. It's hard enough to compete with low-priced rivals, let alone free ones. Maybe that's what prompted IBM CEO Louis Gerstner to write in a March letter to shareholders, "The PC era is over...
Even more ominous for the industry is the generation of information appliances touted as the next wave of microprocessor-loaded consumer goodies. What happens when you've got a Windows CE device running at 200 MHz in the palm of your hand and a cell phone with Internet access in your pocket? Not to mention Packard Bell NEC's planned microwave oven with a video-display terminal on the door so you can surf the Web while waiting for your burrito to thaw. E-mail? Web access? Game playing? Will anyone need a PC to perform what today seem like...