Word: pentium
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...editor said I could write about online privacy only if I promised not to rant again about how I think the whole issue is a big, stinking red herring. So I promise: I will not mention that the flap with Intel last week--whose upcoming Pentium III chips came under fire because they would automatically identify their owners to websites that asked--hardly raised my blood pressure. I like the idea that advertisers could use my chip to figure out who I am so that they could hit me with targeted ads; advertising is unavoidable, and the smarter...
...soon as I could. But now the Micron help guy said he wasn't allowed to support it--the machine had been "altered." This is a hugely cheesy way to treat customers. Still, even if you plan on altering it, a Millennia Max, with a 450-MHz Pentium II chip that's even faster than mine, now costs $1,999--a bargain, in my estimation...
...looking for a great on-the-road machine should check out Toshiba's Portege 3010CT. The Portege weighs 2.9 lbs. and still packs a 10.4-in. active-matrix color screen, a 4.3-gigabyte hard disk and a 56K modem into its 3/4-in.-thick box. Both machines have 266-MHz Pentium chips and 90%-size keyboards, and both are in the $2,000 price range. The Sony is $100 cheaper, but I prefer the Toshiba because it has what I think of as a belly-button-style pointing device, as opposed to Sony's touch pad. (Touch pads do not respond...
According to BYTEmark integer test scores, the G3 Processor in every iMac is over 40 percent faster than a 400 MHz Pentium II. The iMac also integrates the Universal Serial Bus (USB) for connecting peripherals such as keyboards, mice and disk drives. This technology, now standard in many PCs, is over 50 times faster and more user-friendly than its predecessors...