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Location: Brisbane
Registered: February 2003
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Re: Apple goes Intel
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Wed, 08 June 2005 01:13
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actually, the G5 chips are IBM PowerPC chips - Apple went to IBM as motorolla couldn't deliver a fast and powerful enough chip.
i doubt there'll be much price reduction as the rest of the hardware (e.g. openfirmware based motherboard) will still be apple's unique design not a whitebox PC board from asus.
My understanding of this is that it will give them faster laptops and more energy efficient chips - but there's no great erformace increase for workstations unless they run dual core CPUs in the dual CPU box (e.g. 4 x CPU for the real estate of two). lets not forget that the multi-core PowerPC 64 bits chips and Cell chipsets planned to come from IBM is very powereful hardware, it's a shame that we'll not see them in the Apple Xserves.
There was a story on slashdot saying that the actual userbase (not just new purchasors) of Mac users could be as high as 16% in the desktop/laptop arena - i somehow doubt the high numbers but i think they're in for the long haul - i'm a big fan of them to (i work with Macintosh and we have 4 macs at home plus my mum is now an iBook devotee)
but, if they get DTP/design software on linux to the level of quark/photoshop then i'l jump ship. sorry steve.
cheers,
Charles.
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river | Wed, 08 June 2005 22:00 |
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Caledwvech | Wed, 08 June 2005 23:59 |
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