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eric67
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ZIF socket versus daugther board
I agree with you, but the advantage of having a ZIF socket, at least for consumers, is that you could upgrade your computer by simply exchanging your processor, in other worlds, my filing is that with the recent announcement or Power5 development going very well, I would not be surprised that actually the mother board developped fror the PPC970, will actually support also the futurePPC-derived Power5 processor??!! in addition, next year the PPC970 should be available with the 90nm process which will then boost its usage in portable, and the ZIF socket could allow you to upgrade your processor while keeping most of your hardware... this is I think why PC are so much popular for some people because they can upgrade their machine, more or less as they want, of course they have to face the tremendous amount of conflicts generated by the usage of different components together; but it is sometimes an advantage; for example with the graphic cards in the Apple machines...not so much choice...
maybe it will improve with the next mother board....maybe we will not have to wait for the MacEdition of a graphic card, but we will be able to buy a standard graphic card, and just get the Mac drier for it....
OK I was just dreaming awaked
I agree with you, but the advantage of having a ZIF socket, at least for consumers, is that you could upgrade your computer by simply exchanging your processor, in other worlds, my filing is that with the recent announcement or Power5 development going very well, I would not be surprised that actually the mother board developped fror the PPC970, will actually support also the futurePPC-derived Power5 processor??!! in addition, next year the PPC970 should be available with the 90nm process which will then boost its usage in portable, and the ZIF socket could allow you to upgrade your processor while keeping most of your hardware... this is I think why PC are so much popular for some people because they can upgrade their machine, more or less as they want, of course they have to face the tremendous amount of conflicts generated by the usage of different components together; but it is sometimes an advantage; for example with the graphic cards in the Apple machines...not so much choice...
maybe it will improve with the next mother board....maybe we will not have to wait for the MacEdition of a graphic card, but we will be able to buy a standard graphic card, and just get the Mac drier for it....
OK I was just dreaming awaked