On 07.09.2006, at 22:03 , Adam Maas wrote: > Both were issues. IBM wasn't particularly interested in producing > general-purpose G5 units of faster speed (And indeed had lagged on > it's > promises to Apple about 3GHz G5's) while they had concentrated on > producing the tri-core and Cell variants for MS and Sony. Also IBM had > not produced a version suitable for laptop use, which was the driving > factor in the timing of the conversion to Intel from all reports. That's a pity - I have always liked Power PC architecture for no rational reason :-) But what a interesting times that we live in - Microsoft uses PowerPC - Apple Intel processors :-)
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