Re: FLASH: (OT!) coded typewritery thing!!?

[Branden Hall]

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Just want to mention that if you go to Macromedia's site (or look in your

user's manual), you will notice that the system requirements of Flash and

many other Macromedia programs specifically state that a Pentium chip is

required for their Windows software -- the requirements do not say "Pentium

compatible."


This is not to say that Athalons will give you problems with Flash.

However, if you search Macromedia's TechNotes for "Cyrix" you will come

across problems which have occurred in the past due to MMX compatibility

problems on non-Pentium Windows systems.  Something to check for when making

a processor choice; Pentium-compatible chips are not 100% identical.

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Ack... okay... first of all Cyrix has not been making any new chips for a

*long* time (in computer time at least)... and they are just now starting to

work on new chips(their Joshua chip sounds interesting)  But I have seen

this argument thrown around for many years now for why Intel chips are

better...  I have had Cyrix, AMD, and Intel.  I have not had a problem with

any of them, in fact, I do the majority of my development on an Athalon

desktop and an Intel laptop.  As it is now, I would recommend AMD waay above

Intel. They are much more advanced chips, and attack problems with more

intelligence than just raw mHz.  If you go to www.arstechnica.com and read

up on it, you will find that the Athalon has more alike to the G4 than it

does to the PIII, which is really impressive, since the G4 is easily the

best chip out there.  (Actually G4 is a collection of chips, but thats

beside the point)


-= Branden J. Hall

-= Multimedia Developer/Instructor

-= Fig Leaf Software









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