On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:58 PM, James E. Therrault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dan wrote: > >> At 10:47 AM -0500 12/4/2008, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> >>>On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:29 AM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >>> >> Motorola is pretty much out of the picture for CPUs and IBM? Haven't >>> >>>>> heard of them making CPUs since the G5 passed on. >>>> >>>> Motorola's CPUs are now made by its spin-off, Freescale. >>> >>>But for consumer CPUs I hear nothing . I see no powerful desktops >>>brandishing Motorola stickers. >> >> >> Right. Except for some boxes that run Linux, Motorola/Freescale is >> basically out of the desktop/laptop biz. T'was never a big market >> for those companies. Yea, Apple was a drop in their bucket, if that. >> They were and are doing just fine embedding in other products. That >> was a big sticking point with Apple: Apple was unable to influence >> them into prioritizing production of the faster PowerPC chips. >> >> ...Of course, no decision gets made without a down side. Shortly >> after Intel released Core, AMD leapfrogged over 'em, then the PowerPC >> chips leapfrogged over 'em, then... >> >> >>> > IBM is still among the largest semi houses in the world, although a >>> >>>> lot of it is "captive". >>> >>>Embedded industrial drones I presume. >> >> >> IBM has targeted Power toward the high-end server and >> supersupercomputer markets. >> >> - Dan. > > > And don't forget that MS' X-Box is Power PC. > > JT >
???? Had mine open 2 years ago for an optical drive replacement. Guess I didn't know what i was looking at. Odd as I thought I would recognize any PPC chip. I have read it is basically like a 733 MHz laptop setup. I never read of any PPC cpu in there. What I do know is that for it's age and price it can sling some fast 3D rendering on the fly. Any Flatout2 fans out there? I'm lookin' ta race. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
