On Apr 29, 2005, at 11:30 AM, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
Randall Shimizu wrote:
Apple seems fairly committed to the PPC platform. So long as they hold
the lead in performance and design I doubt they will change. Apple is
company that is highly dependent upon brand equity.
And one that is very good at changing CPU with a minimum of end-user issues (m68k to PPC)
BWHAHAHAHA! Oh, you kill me. <sniff> Sorry. <sniff> I'm much better now ...
As someone who worked on the PowerPC development teams at Somerset when Apple was making that change, I can tell you that the change did *not* go with a minimum of end user issues. In fact, it had so many issues that we had to respin the 603 into the 603e in order to cover for many of those issues.
There really is no particularly good reason for Apple to switch from PowerPC, and, in fact, the lower power consumption of the PowerPC line is a good reason *not* to change.
The only advantage to moving to x86 would be to get better *chipset* support. And, they could do that by actually paying one of the Taiwanese chipset manufacturers to do theirs, too.
-a
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