Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > 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. >
The changeover occurred two or three years ago. Here's an interesting link: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=10265 JT --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
