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thechuckster Forums Junkie Location: Brisbane Registered: February 2003	Re: Apple goes Intel Wed, 08 June 2005 01:13 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. [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Apple goes Intel	river	Tue, 07 June 2005 21:40
	Re: Apple goes Intel	Caledwvech	Wed, 08 June 2005 00:53
	Re: Apple goes Intel	paulw85	Wed, 08 June 2005 00:57
	Re: Apple goes Intel	Caledwvech	Wed, 08 June 2005 01:02
	Re: Apple goes Intel	thechuckster	Wed, 08 June 2005 01:13
	Re: Apple goes Intel	MR. 2	Wed, 08 June 2005 01:10
	Re: Apple goes Intel	paulw85	Wed, 08 June 2005 01:37
	Re: Apple goes Intel	thechuckster	Wed, 08 June 2005 05:18
	Re: Apple goes Intel	Caledwvech	Wed, 08 June 2005 01:41
	Re: Apple goes Intel	paulw85	Wed, 08 June 2005 10:19
	Re: Apple goes Intel	thechuckster	Wed, 08 June 2005 13:22
	Re: Apple goes Intel	unforgiven	Wed, 08 June 2005 10:54
	Re: Apple goes Intel	paulw85	Wed, 08 June 2005 21:53
	Re: Apple goes Intel	river	Wed, 08 June 2005 22:00
	Re: Apple goes Intel	paulw85	Wed, 08 June 2005 22:09
	Re: Apple goes Intel	Caledwvech	Wed, 08 June 2005 23:59
	Re: Apple goes Intel	thechuckster	Thu, 09 June 2005 00:17
	Re: Apple goes Intel	Caledwvech	Thu, 09 June 2005 00:34
	Re: Apple goes Intel	RobST162	Thu, 09 June 2005 00:43
	Re: Apple goes Intel	toof	Sat, 11 June 2005 11:34
	Re: Apple goes Intel	RobST162	Sat, 11 June 2005 11:52
	Re: Apple goes Intel	gearb0x	Sat, 11 June 2005 12:16
	Re: Apple goes Intel	thechuckster	Sat, 11 June 2005 13:01
	Re: Apple goes Intel	gearb0x	Sat, 11 June 2005 13:49
	Re: Apple goes Intel	thechuckster	Sat, 11 June 2005 14:04
	Re: Apple goes Intel	gearb0x	Sat, 11 June 2005 14:24
	Re: Apple goes Intel	ae86drift	Sat, 11 June 2005 13:17
	Re: Apple goes Intel	Ribfeast	Sun, 12 June 2005 23:09
	Re: Apple goes Intel	thechuckster	Mon, 13 June 2005 01:01
	Re: Apple goes Intel	river	Tue, 14 June 2005 05:53

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