Their 64 bit chips run two separate 32 bit registers. Their 32 bit chips are really 8 bit chips interlaced to 32 bits. Pentium chips employ long pipelines and CISC processing. Because of the CISC processing they have to run at higher processing cycles, hence the higher GHZ. They generate a helluva lot of heat and the latest interation, Prescott, pulls 100 watts of power. It's all smoke and mirrors to say the 3.6 GZH chip is faster than a 2.7 GHZ G5. Jobs complained that IBM had only increased processing power from 2 GHZ to 2.7 in two years. However, during that same time period Intel has only increased the speed of the P4 from 3.4 to 3.6 GHZ. Late last year they issued a press release admitting they had hit the wall with the current P4 technology in terms of squeezing more speed out of that line of chips. Perhaps Apple is banking on a new line they are going to develop for them that will eliminate the limitations and bottlenecks of the current P4's, but that's down the road - perhaps two years. In the meantime, I wonder where IBM and Freescale will be with their chips?
Does anybody find it strange that Microsoft and Sony dumped Intel in their gaming machines citing similar complaints about Intel as Jobs did with IBM?
Next question. Does Apple really think they're going to shoehorn the P4 into a slim 1 inch Powerbook case when no pc maker has been able to do this? All laptops running the P4 are over 2 inches thick. Personally, I sure would have loved to have seen the 3 GHZ dual core G4 in the next generation Powerbook.
Does anybody find it strange that Microsoft and Sony dumped Intel in their gaming machines citing similar complaints about Intel as Jobs did with IBM?
Next question. Does Apple really think they're going to shoehorn the P4 into a slim 1 inch Powerbook case when no pc maker has been able to do this? All laptops running the P4 are over 2 inches thick. Personally, I sure would have loved to have seen the 3 GHZ dual core G4 in the next generation Powerbook.