Just to clarify, the 73/75/7600 models run at anywhere from a 40 to 50 mhz
bus speed, depending on the model. Otherwise, everything Mr. PopMan said is
absolutely correct.
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PCI PowerMacs)
> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 00:54:59 -0400
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: PCI PowerMacs Digest #683
>
> First you need to identify the bottle neck correctly. The
> 73/75/7600 computers run with a bus speed of 40 Mhz, and can move
> about 10 M Bytes per second to/from memory. The real problem is USB
> which only runs at 12 M Bits per second (1.2 M Bytes per second).
> With a USB CD-RW, regardless of the system, the best you will be able
> to run at is 4x burn rate. If speed is really important, look at
> either a Firewire based CD-RW or a SCSI one.
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