MaGioZal wrote: > On 7/7/09 3:57 PM, James E. Therrault at <jetas...@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > > >>Bottom line was the lack of fast low power chips for laptops that >>ultimately resulted in the switch. Had a low power G5 chip been >>produced, there would be no Apple Intel today. > > > > The other thing that burned the marketing image of IBM-Mororola-Apple was > the "GHz Chip race". When all the PC market was proudly announcing 1GHz > computers, Apple for a relatively long time had to conform to the > duo-processed 600MHz Macs. >
I remember when IBM was running an (I believe) experimental PPC chip at 1GHz in 1995. Problem was that very often, IBM could not get things out of the research lab purely due to bureaucracy and infrastructure. 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 g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
