I'm with El Diablo when he says "Does it matter? It's freakin' fast!", because only after the crippled specs of the card were "found out" did people start complaining. It's just a bit weird and subtly primal to complain about something in that maner. If these people would actually think about it, they would see that they were not being gypped, for Apple said absolutely nothing about how fast the card is really supposed to run. It's not fair to Apple to start comparing an X1600 in their notebooks to something in a Wintel lapbox like Acer would make. Apple wanted to define a line between performance and humanly justifiable thermodynamics, as well as define a line between performance and lawsuits due to burn injuries. Granted, the MacBooks don't exactly do good for thighs, but they might actually become dangerous if pushed far enough.
If you want the extra hair-blowing and thigh-singing power that the X1600 is capable of, just use some overclocking software and shut up about it. The rest of us are fine with mediocrely amazing speed and are happy refraining from 3rd-degree burns.
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• 466MHz Powerbook G4
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