In a message dated 5/17/00 11:51:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Karl writes:

<<  I bought a GT300 computer that was
 billed as having a 300-MHz Cyrix CPU.  Much later when I had
 my system diagnosed by PC Pitstop, I discovered that the CPU
 was only 234 MHz.  >>

I agree this is annoying, but this is not a result of Tiger's practices, but
rather those of Cyrix. Cyrix uses a "P rating" that gives what they consider
the equivalent Pentium CPU speed. So when you see a Cyrix 300, it is not
saying the CPU actually runs at 300. It is saying that Cyrix believes this
chip gives performance equivalent to a Pentium 300. Just about all vendors
list the Cyrix chips by their "P-rating" speed rather than their true MHz
speed.

---Bryan

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