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Hackers factual errors

Just reading the goofs section for Hackers in IMDB. These two are my favorite: In the scene when Acid is showing-off her laptop, they speak of ...

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Just reading the goofs section for Hackers in IMDB. These two are my favorite:

  • In the scene when Acid is showing-off her laptop, they speak of the laptop having a processor called a P6 and a PCI bus. Further examination of this scene and another scene with them looking over the damaged code, the laptop that Acid-burn has is clearly a Macintosh Powerbook 280C (sub-notebook) made by Apple Computer Inc. This model does not have a PCI-bus, or a P6. It does have a Motorola 68030 33mhz CPU.
  • When Kate is describing the specs of her machine she says, “It’s a P6 chip. Triple the speed of the Pentium”. Dade then says, “Yeah. It’s not just the chip, it has a PCI bus”. Kate says, “Indeed. RISC architecture is gonna change everything”. The P6 chip is a CISC design, not a RISC. Also, the Pentium has a PCI bus so there wouldn’t be any reason to mention it.

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