Return to Top of Page Linux Compaq, Dell amd Hewlett Packard have all announce official support for Linux. IBM has announced that they will release a version of their Notes server forLinux. It appears thatMicrosoft will soon be distracted from Apple. Hopefully Apple can take advantage of this opportunity. Return to Top of Page G4 Preliminary tests of the G4 look real good.
Integer performance looks real good just like in previous models of the Power PC processor.
The new Altivec instructon set provides a good boost in certain areas. Equally exciting is the floating point speed of the G4. The future looks bright. Return to Top of Page Memory Prices declined steadily until July of 1998, then they started going back up. For DIMMs, they have started going back down.