At 5:07 AM -0600 10/24/2010, James Therrault wrote:
When the PowerPC alliance dropped the ball (inability to produce
faster PowerPC G4 processors for laptops), Apple jumped ship by
switching to Intel's new Core architecture.
Don'tcha mean G5?
The roadmap called for both the G4 and G5 to progress. The G5 was
really targeted toward desktop and server type machines, that had the
available power and room for giant heat sinks. The G4 (7450) was the
laptop chip that stalled out hard.
Interesting, but I still think that Apple dropped the ball with
regard to option to power sucking G5 chips for laptops. Neither IBM
or Motorola could do it but maybe a special arrangement with other
Intel competitors to work on a low power PPC such as AMD could have
proven fruitful.
hah. No way would Big Blue ever license the Power architecture to
the likes of Intel or AMD!!!!
Apple had little to do with things, back in the day. It was the IBM
/ Motorola / Freescale collective that was designing and producing
the chips. Their sales to Apple were so trivial that Apple basically
had no influence. Ultimately, they went in the direction best for
them... IBM put their efforts in the real Power chips.
Moto/Freescale went for the embedded processor market. And Apple
switched to the lemming platform.
Power technology is now way up there with regards to clock speed
supporting multiple cores.
Yea. We call that Defeat Snatched From The Jaws of Victory. ...
which of course brings us back the old argument of wanting that
robust build of OS X, that runs on Intel x86, AMD x86, ARM, and Power.
- Dan.
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