On Oct 24, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Alex Barnes wrote:
The thing is Motorola/IBM did deliver on a PPC
solution that had a low energy power footprint drastically lower then
anything Intel had and that Blew even the top G5s out of the water
but
it came a few months too late because Apple in their impatience
jumped
too soon and ended up with a mediocre solution all because they could
not push back a release date on new laptops. (snip)
The switch to Intel was a smart move because it enabled the Macs to
dual boot Windoze and in turn it brought in a lot of sales. Also, I
like the Intel CPUs because even the weakest ones were faster than
the G5s. My 13" MBP has waaaaaaaay better benchmarks than the last
Powermac G5.
Apple moved to Intel because they finally had a partner big enough to
produce large numbers of cutting edge CPUS and do so with Apple as a
major customer in mind.
Apple is now one of Intel's top 5 customers. They were never more than
a sideline to Motorola or IBM. The Cell CPU wouldn't have made much
difference as a laptop cpu; if it did, MS would have come out with a
portable XBox a long time ago.
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University of Arizona
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