Motorola's 7450 Processor

Price of Intel and AMD chips?

How does this price compare to the best chips Intel and AMD can put out?

CPU prices...

You don't go buying CPU's at CDW.

A quick look at http://www.sharkyextreme.com CPU price list reveals (as of right now):

AMD Athlon T-bird 1.4GHz = $162
AMD Athlon T-bird 800MHz = $59
Intel P III 1GHz = $179
Intel P 4 1.4GHz = $172
Intel P 4 1.7GHz = $336

...quite the cheaper chips (and those are single unit rates). Arn -- what was the cost of the new L3-disabled G4 733?


blakespot

???

Does that mean apple is overcharging us?

You can't say that Apple is really overcharging on processor prices much if you consider that the multiprocessor version has more controller electronics. There is also the issue of the cache. I assume each 2MB L3 cache is a separate cost, since it is not on the die. I am also assuming that they raised the L3 to 2MB to partially make up for the megahertz gap.

Looking at the whole computer, the processor is just one of many components that make up the final price. You are right about the memory charge... but they have contracts. It helped keep prices down during the shortage, but now that memory is dirt cheap, the deal doesn't quite look so good.

I think I'm going to buy a dual 800 and overclock it to 1 GHz. I'm okay with a little fan noise for a workhorse.

When will we see this?

Third party processor companays, such as Sonnet, Powerlogix, XLR8, among others, are still stuck at 500MHz. I think they are going through the above-500 troubles that Apple had prior to this year, but lets hope not.

"Cooking" ...heh...

I'll give you a head's up when my dual-800 gets here, Arn. (Arnold and I are in a bit of a competiton on the orders...I beat him by about a day with the initial order, taking place moments after the keynote, but ole' Arn had to cancel and re-order wanting to change his spec to 60GB (7,200RPM) vs. 40GB (5,400RPM) drive setup...putting him about 3 days behind me.) We'll see how those days translate into week-age for shipping.

(My free Lexmark printer was delivered Friday.)


blakespot

I say that only cause

Apple has a damn 66.6% profit on all machines. They seem to be on the greed side with there money $$. Plus never buy the memory from apple, they overcharge you a bundle
Okay let me change that.
I seeing how all of you don't think that apple doesn't overcharge us.

[Edited by MrMacman on 07-28-2001 at 09:56 AM]

15%

do you think a 15% profitmargin is too big?? consider advertising, free shipping, demo machines for resellors etc. i think 15% is quite fair.

The memory is a rip-off though, no argument there.

a fine summers afternoon, wot wot

15% aint too bad, not considering how last week i worked out i could build a PC for half the cost it is in the shops....erk!
i dont understand why mac processors are so expensive compared to pc ones? any1 got an idea why?

its a question of quantity instead of quality

its all a question of the basic economic principle of "economies of scale", the more you can sell the more you can produce the lower the unit cost/price becomes.

One of the reasons is becuase Motorola processors are simply more expensive than Intel ones. However, Motorola also has deals with Apple, so they may be getting the processors cheaper. Additionally, Apple buys some of the processors from IBM. Motorola processors are not necessarily designed with Apple in mind. PowerPC processors are designed for high demand applications such as superfast telecom, embeded sectors, etc. Intel chips are only designed for PCs. Furthermore, the 128 bit path has a much lower yeild that Intel's 32 bit path. Getting superfast G4s requires almost unprecedented technology at fabrication time – technology which is not cheap by any means. However 32 bit paths have been around forever, so no super new fabrication techniques need to be used. G4 chips are also copper based whereas the Intel chips are Aluminum based. Quite simply, it costs more to manufacture. But honestly, which would you rather use?
- Andrew

I think most of us are mac user's

Most of us, no I think I can say all of us are mac users. This is macrumors.com , not pcrumors.com