On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:02 PM, James E. Therrault <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > >
OK, without the "360 " tag I thought the "Classic XBox was the one referred to. We had some LEM discussion about 4 years ago about OS X On the XBox 360 when Dan the List Mom wrote a rave about the possibilities. OS X on a powerful lowcost multicore at that time made imaginations reel. Cheap Kit indeed! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
