On Jun 9, 2005, at 2:58 PM, Peter da Silva wrote:
What I was alluding to is that we will not likely see a G5 in a
PowerBook anyway.
Who cares? There's no way we'd ever see a G5 in a Powerbook. That was
obvious right from the start. What we need for Powerbooks is to break
the G4 bus barrier... and the Pentium M does that with its 533 MHz
bus,
but the MPC8641 does it BETTER with its pair of 677 MHz memory ports.
I wouldn't bet on a 3 GHz G5 being faster than a 1.5 GHz MPC8641D.
The current units are too big and run too hot, and
PPC has failed to come up with a solution for smaller machines.
Sampling 2H2005.
Coming back full circle to the original question: "If these CPUs are
so great, then why the switch?"
It certainly would be a lot less of a problem for all concerned if
Apple didn't have to do this right now. As I said, this is likely the
very last thing Jobs WANTS to do right now.
So, Peter, either you're smarter than all the executives and
engineers at Apple, Intel, Motorola, AND IBM regarding their own
products, or THEY know something YOU don't.
I'm betting the latter.
This wasn't an idle or capricious decision on Apple's part.
Steve HAD to get the BOD's approval on something as fundamental and
business-affecting as this, so it isn't a 'Steve Jobs threw a tantrum
one day and switched Apple from PPC to Intel' or 'Steve jobs was
humiliated by predicting 3GHz PowerMacs and was shafted by IBM so he
switched Apple from PPC to Intel' story.
IBM and Motorola both had to seriously undermine the business
relationship with Apple for this to happen.
I'm betting it's that Intel sees CPUs for PC's (Mac or Win) as a
cornerstone of it's business, whereas these are merely small
sidelines for both Moto and IBM.
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