Talk about duplicates...how many things are called "Classic", "SE", or "LC"? (I actually have an electric razor called the "LC"!)
I saw a line of appliances at Lowe's called Performa the other day...but I'm sure Performa (plus Classic, SE, and LC) aren't a big deal since none of them have been made for years. I could see a G6 lawsuit coming, but since Apple's going to Intel I'd say it's time to get rid of the G-series names anyway since the architecture would be completely different. I don't think Apple would want to deal with GM, but hey, this company's fought the Beatles and Carl Sagan before. Scott --- Allan Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Back when the '030 was going nose to nose against > the '386, the > conventional wisdom was "our architecture is better, > but never > underestimate Intel". > > At 11:35 PM +0100 7/12/05, Liam Proven wrote: > >I fear there may well be an "Intel Inside" logo > >or sticker, though, since Intel hand out > considerable marketing money > >to anyone using this. And it's a good brand - from > a standing start in > >the late 1990s, Intel went from a completely > unknown name outside tech > >circles to a household word inside 3yr, due to > /massive/ ad spend. It > >ended up right up there with Marlboro and > Coca-Cola. > > > I am sad because at this point the x86 architecture > is a horrid > anachronism and the Mac sw platform, unlike the PC > platforms, is NOT > chock-full of legacy software that was written for > the 386 chip (or > written subsequent to that but compiled for the same > legacy platform, > for that matter). > > I am NOT sad due to any misgivings about Intel. > There's no doubt > that they can deliver the bacon. By all rights the > early Pentium > should have been the final roar of an architecture > whose time had > come and was fast becoming gone. That they have met > the frenetic > requests of the installed base and found, not only > ever-faster ways > of executing this ancient rickety instruction set, > but actually ways > of doing so that have kept the far-simpler PowerPC > instruction set on > the outer margins, is downright astonishing. > > (Credit there is also due to AMD for pushing Intel > to the wall...AMD > has also done some jaw-droppingly amazing things > with chips that > execute the same creaky cumbersome legacy > instruction set) > > It's like waking up to find that VHS vendors have > met the challenge > of DVD by releasing a cheap, backwards-compatible > pseudo-analog film > format that outperforms DVD. You look at the specs > and discover the > modern tape is digital tape, the players have dual > heads (the analog > head can play back legacy VHS), it is recorded on > the same medium as > the original despite the wastefulness and > inappropriateness but a > sophisticated compression-decompression algorithm > manages to skrunch > an entire digital movie plus commentary onto that > low-grade vinyl > tape medium, and astonishingly overdeveloped chips > read and > decompress it fast enough to play back in real time. > And an enormous > full-tape-sized buffer retains the entire [EMAIL PROTECTED]@! > movie in RAM to make > it possible to select a scene and hop to it without > waiting for L O N > G S L O W tape-whirling to take place. And you > look at all of this > and say "Wow, incredible kludges! But this is > stupid. Sorry, but > really. The DVD is the way to go". But the market > goes with the > backwards-compatible faster-performing kludge > nonetheless. > > I'm still holding out hope that Intel will create > for the Mac, or > deploy for the Mac, a 64-bit chip that kicks butt > and isn't > encumbered by the x86 instruction set. > > -- > Allan Hunter > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <http://home.earthlink.net/~ahunter> > > -- > Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> > and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com > | Enter To Win A | > -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 > | Free iBook! | > > Support Low End Mac > <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > Vintage Macs list info: > <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: > <mailto:[email protected]> > To unsubscribe, email: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > iPod Accessories for Less > at 1-800-iPOD.COM > Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal > www.1800ipod.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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