> > On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Ed Kummel wrote:
> > I believe that the new Ipaq (and all the newer CE2.0
> > devices) run at 206mHz...still slower than my 219mHz
> > MP2000!
>
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Alexander Oberdrster wrote:
> Well, that doesn't help if the iPAQ can play 128 kbps MP3s with no
> problems and the Newton can't. As you may know, MHz is not everything ;)
>
> And isn't sound playback faster, too? (chipmunk effect)
Well, it's not *just* the MHz. The StrongARM used in the iPaq, the
SA-1110, includes an SDRAM interface(on-chip) which the iPaq most
certainly uses. IIRC, the SDRAM on the iPaq runs @ 66MHz and can burst
upto 8 words.
Contrast this to the Newton where the SA-110 uses the Voyager for slower
EDO memory access. By some accounts, the Voyager needs 7 bus cycles to
complete a memory access, which can be a huge bottleneck...
And not to nitpick Ed, but "mHz" would be milliHz, I suspect you meant
"MHz".
Thanks,
Speedy2.
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