[SC.LUG] Farewell

[Ian Molton]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:42:27 +0100
Mark Walker <markwalker at connectfree.co.uk> wrote:

> on the basis of the difference in iTune 
> ripping times (Athlon 3.75x; eMac 9.0x).

thats not a valid comparison. (and Im no great X86 fan).

the athlon can encode music at WELL over 9x, and can read data from  the IDE bus at well over 50MByte/sec.

if theres any difference between the machines then its down to the quality of the CDROM drive.

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