Has Apple lied to us

[risc]

My thing is it doesn't seem like apple gave the g5 enough time to truely develop.

Have you entertained the thought that maybe it was IBM that gave up on the G5? They can't get it in to a notebook, so they are missing out a huge chunk of the Apple market, I look at it this way Apple sell a large amount of G5 based boxes _BUT_ Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft are a HUGE HUGE market for IBM processors I know where I'd be putting my R&D money if I was IBM.

It's all speculation though I love OS X if my next Mac has an Intel CPU in it, it's all good!

 

[furryrabidbunny]

Have you entertained the thought that maybe it was IBM that gave up on the G5? They can't get it in to a notebook, so they are missing out a huge chunk of the Apple market, I look at it this way Apple sell a large amount of G5 based boxes _BUT_ Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft are a HUGE HUGE market for IBM processors I know where I'd be putting my R&D money if I was IBM.

It's all speculation though I love OS X if my next Mac has an Intel CPU in it, it's all good!

IBM probably did give up. Apple probably pushed and pushed for R&D and wasn't getting it because of all those little pretty game units they are making chips for. I doubt though that IBM will make huge profit off of them, unless sony, nintendo, and microsoft plan on taking all the loss. I also really doubt right now that IBM can manufacture enough chips for all these systems. Hell, they couldn't even make enough for powermacs and imacs.

 

[Toe]

So what's up with this page?
http://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/

It says over and over that Power Mac G5 stomps Pentium 4s. And the first sentence bluntly states: "The PowerPC G5 out-shoots the Pentium 4 in a battery of tests."

What are we to make of this? It doesn't mention Windows at all. It doesn't mention OS X architecture in terms of speed. It is all about the hardware.

Seems like they may need to, ahem, clarify this, no? That may be a bit difficult when they will be trying to sell G5's on the high end for another year or two....

 

[wordmunger]

So what's up with this page?
http://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/

It says over and over that Power Mac G5 stomps Pentium 4s. And the first sentence bluntly states: "The PowerPC G5 out-shoots the Pentium 4 in a battery of tests."

What are we to make of this? It doesn't mention Windows at all. It doesn't mention OS X architecture in terms of speed. It is all about the hardware.

Seems like they may need to, ahem, clarify this, no? That may be a bit difficult when they will be trying to sell G5's on the high end for another year or two....

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(brief summary: it's not about P4 vs. G5, it's about Pentium-M vs. G4)

 

[bug]

So what's up with this page?
http://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/

It says over and over that Power Mac G5 stomps Pentium 4s. And the first sentence bluntly states: "The PowerPC G5 out-shoots the Pentium 4 in a battery of tests."

It’s about the future. 2007 powermacs are not going to have current Intel chips in them, they will have 2007 Intel chips.

That and the mobile line from Intel just kills the G4 so much so that it is embarrassing.

No one is lying to you, but it's technology - what is 'the best' is constantly changing. If you get caught up in the ideology of it, you loose.