News.com heeft een artikeltje over de PIII in elkaar gepleurd. Vooralsnog is er weinig reden om een PIII te kopen, tenzij je voor gek uitgemaakt wilt worden wegens het onzinnig besteden van je hard verdiende centen. Where's the beef?
The Pentium III will be faster than the Pentium II, and soon feature additional architectural innovations that will boost performance. But one of the main reasons to buy a Pentium III that computer makers will tout--a series of 70 new multimedia instructions--won't really have much of an effect on the user experience. Benefits from the new "Katmai" instructions won't become apparent until software vendors adopt them, and that is a process that will take time.Analysts point to the recent history of Intel’s much-hyped MMX instructions as reason to doubt their efficacy. “Software developers have rewritten relatively few programs to take advantage of [Intel’s new technology],” said Ashok Kumar, an analyst at Piper Jaffray in Minneapolis, Minn.
