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Uh, oh, maybe Jobs will go back to PowerPC now...
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I agree. I highly doubt that Apple would return to a company that is a day late and a dollar short. It took Apple leaving and Motorola seeing how profitable things really could have been for them to get off their asses and take care of business.adk said:
Someone should be fired.
The G6 will be the fastest PowerPC chip ever! Bring back the power!
Actually, I wouldn't put it past Apple to support both PowerPC and intel chips. All the software will be universal soon, so it wouldn't be that much of a problem for OSX applications.
Once all the windows users are converted, we'll force them to use the G6 and they'll have to wave goodbye to their precious boot camp and parallels crutches...
OSX will rule the world! And it only runs on Apple Hardware!! Muhuhuhuhahahaa!!!
Plus Vista is going to ruin microsoft... All signs point to a world of apple.
Actually, I wouldn't put it past Apple to support both PowerPC and intel chips. All the software will be universal soon, so it wouldn't be that much of a problem for OSX applications.
Once all the windows users are converted, we'll force them to use the G6 and they'll have to wave goodbye to their precious boot camp and parallels crutches...
OSX will rule the world! And it only runs on Apple Hardware!! Muhuhuhuhahahaa!!!
Plus Vista is going to ruin microsoft... All signs point to a world of apple.
FF_productions said:
if they slightly underclock the new chip to 3GHz it might even be possible to cope with the heat.
btw: could you please change your avatar? that thing is just digusting. what is it? it looks ugly.
andiwm2003 said:if they slightly underclock the new chip to 3GHz it might even be possible to cope with the heat.
btw: could you please change your avatar? that thing is just digusting. what is it? it looks ugly.
This guy is the future of Microsoft!!!!
I always thought that Apple's biggest problem with IBM was their seemingly lack of focus on developing PPC chips, instead IBM would go out and develop for gaming machines and server meanwhile ignoring apple and not presenting a good road map for the future isnt this neglect what lead to the chism.
Announcements like this are made all the time. What they mean for the CPU industry in the short term is jack squat. These types of discoveries take years to even begin to trickle down to the consumer markets. Jobs made the right decision to go with Intel as they will always be guaranteed the best and cheapest consumer technology at the time.
Sort of. IBM's plans for the PPC had the family going in directions that did not fit Apple's needs. In particular, IBM had no plans for low-power versions of the PPC family. None of us knows what the future holds. However, it would be serious mistake to believe that Apple is married to Intel.bbrosemer said:
MisterMe said:
True but apple will have to be careful about just dumping intel. They are pretty good at burning bridges and if they keep it up they will run out of bridges to burn plus they dont have the marketing power to demand what they want. Loyalty goes a long ways and not dropping a company at chance that some else will have something better.
Apple seems to have a history of doing that and they need to slow down at it.
I doubt we'll ever see IBM ship this. They're notorious for promising and then NEVER delivering.
If they do deliver someday, it will probably be AFTER intel has done the same thing, and lower speeds than intel.
Apple completely made the right decision, if there's a huge change 2 or 3 years from now, nothing is stopping them from making another move.
If they do deliver someday, it will probably be AFTER intel has done the same thing, and lower speeds than intel.
Apple completely made the right decision, if there's a huge change 2 or 3 years from now, nothing is stopping them from making another move.
IBM wont hold back the findings for only them. They will licence the ability to other companies and try to make as much money off of the research as possible.
Peyton said:
The problem here is that IIRC, this development works with a different doping of Silicon which appeared to not be horribly practical for things like CPUs. However, this sort of thing is great in networking and communications, as you can get faster switches for fiber networks (currently one of the bottle-necks on fiber), the ability to produce/consume high-frequency signals more easily beyond 2-5 Ghz. These sort of applications are far simpler than a general-purpose chip.
If it can be used on the scale of a CPU, then we would have to wait a decade before we would even see one on the market, and it would likely be a very expensive chip aimed to be used in server farms of large corporations at first.
iGary said:Here they are putting the cooling system in place for one of these chips:
that's exactly what i thought...based on if the processor was mostly hardware based, but there are always up and coming software solutions for faster and cooler chips...i think i have the recipe in my cookbook (as the fbi reads this post and sends a couple of agents out to my house
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JRM PowerPod said:
my first apple was 4 mhz, dual 5.25" floppy drives, 128 k of ram, and a black and white crt.
63dot said:that's exactly what i thought...based on if the processor was mostly hardware based, but there are always up and coming software solutions for faster and cooler chips...i think i have the recipe in my cookbook (as the fbi reads this post and sends a couple of agents out to my house
Same here- something running at that clock speed would need some rather extraordinary cooling!
Intel have far more technologies in development.
Just Google "Intel terahertz". They have used this technology and come up with a lot more to go with it. Thier roadmap is already designed and chips working for the next ten years, a reason to why Jobs was interested.
Just Google "Intel terahertz". They have used this technology and come up with a lot more to go with it. Thier roadmap is already designed and chips working for the next ten years, a reason to why Jobs was interested.