I was just at an Intel conference. There current Xeon's come with 64bit
extensions and the new higher P4's do also. It is supposed to trickle
down to all processors by the time Mac releases a mini with a P4 in it.
I imagine that since the mini is a cheapo Mac it won't come with the
64bit enabled proc. But we'll see. The G4 isn't after all. My guess is
Apple will choose Xeon CPU's for the higher end PowerMacs, like the G5.
So a dual G5 now would equal a dual Xeon with dual core then. Or maybe
quad core or triple something by that time. Needless to say it will
still be a bad a** Mac and will of course be better than a current G5.
By 2007 when PM's are using these procs that will be 2 years of
advances in technology. There is no way that Mac in the future will be
slower than a current dual G5.
-Mike
On Tuesday, June 7, 2005, at 04:29 PM, Rad Craig wrote:
On Jun 7, 2005, at 5:00 PM, Anand Keathley wrote:
Go here.
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/
universal_binary/> Under conventions it states, "Intel architecture
32-bit." So, this will be a big speed drop compared to a G5. Too
bad too because they could have based it on one of Intel's other
chips with 64 bit architecture like the "Xeon," for servers you can
read about here, <http://www.intel.com/products/roadmap/server.htm>.
But Intel has no low voltage 64 bit chips. It appears that Apple has
decided that they are willing to sacrifice desktop machines in favor
of laptops:-(
My understanding is that this is only for the development platform?
To get people up and running yesterday, then 64-bit chips before
release with just a recompile? Or maybe I dreamed that?
I can't see them going backwards in speed, otherwise why dump IBM? I
think they are getting all of this ready (this year) for Intel's next
batch of 64-bit chips.
That would make sense to me anyway.
Rad...
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