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Apple QuickTime movie  |  1994-06-02  |  8.7 MB  |  320x240  |  15fps  |  1 minute, 3 seconds  |  [MooV/TVOD]
Transcription: What's really nice for Macintosh now is that we're on a new plane when it comes to the performance of the processor itself. We've really made a jump in the architecture itself because we went to a wrist chip. Because of this, it's easier for us to keep going to new generations and really take advantage over the next couple years of the performance of a wrist chip. Whereas in the Pentium situation, you're really extending the old x86 architecture, which is now over 20 years old. That's a lot of work. And because of that, Pentiums are more expensive, more complex, and run hotter for the same per ...