On Jan 4, 2006, at 5:06 PM, Andrew Weiss wrote:
The best move would be a unique dual platform move with PPC for the desktop and Intel for the laptop market. Apple is just about the only vendor who could pull this off too. 4 general purpose registers and a BIOS... vomit!
8 GP registers, 16 GP registers in the AMD64 mode, when Intel finally catches up with AMD.
There's nothing wrong with the G4 core. The only problem with the G4 is that 166 MHz bus is dog slow when Intel's fielding 533 MHz system busses.
They should have waited for the MPC8641D. Dual G4 core, and dual 733 MHz DDR memory busses. That would make a killer powerbook even if it wasn't any faster in MHz.
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