On Saturday, June 4, 2005, at 08:35 AM, Brian wrote:
What bothers me is that IBM supplied faster CPUs for the XBOX then it
did for the latest revision of the powermac. This could hint at IBM
being less than cooperative in its partnership with Apple, and might
be leaving Apple with no choice but to find a new chip. What a waste-
a powerful 64 bit chip like the G5 being wasted on nothing but game
stations.
Brian
Yup, money talks. You might be right; Steve likes to feel more
powerful than that. Still, I hope that's not a big part of his
decision. Maybe he is just posturing? We'll find out in a few days.
- Peter
On Jun 4, 2005, at 7:28 AM, Peter Schaff wrote:
On Friday, June 3, 2005, at 10:31 PM, James Carroll wrote:
On Saturday 04 June 2005 00:24, Rad Craig wrote:
A friend just sent this to me, thought ti might interest those of
you
who haven't heard about it yet:
http://news.com.com/Apple+to+ditch+IBM%2C+switch+to+Intel+chips/
2100-1006_3-5731398.html?part=rss&tag=5731398&subj=news
I've been hearing this rumor for years now. I find it hard to
believe they'd
dump the powerpc line for intel. Think of all the software that
would no
longer work. Thousands of third party and shareware programs would
choke.
That's a much bigger move than it was from 68K to PPC and look how
traumatic
that was and how long it took. And why? The move from 68K was
forced by
Motorola but IBM is just getting started good with the Power line.
I just
don't see it happening.
James Carroll
Not only that, but momentum seems to be shifting over to PPC, what
with the Xbox 360. Not to mention Cell technology. PPC future looks
bright; I'm actually getting excited. Don't think I'd recommend
investing in Intel in the near future. They're playing catch up.
Jobs is all about leveraging opportunities into success by brute
force, and he's good at it. This could be his "opportunity". But it
sure would put a damper on my next 5 years of computing. I was
rather hoping for a Cell announcement.
I hope you're right. C-net sounds rather sure of themselves about
this.
- Peter Schaff
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