No bootcamp, they would run hotter and slower along with less software.
It's an interesting thing to think about, where would apple be if they had stayed with ppc? In 2006, the G5's where starting to surpass the 2.ghz margin so by now would that be in the 3ghz levels? You thoughts please
THe software would probably be a lot more limiting than it is today in pure number of applications. Also I don't think there would be nearly as many as Mac adopters today because there would be no bootcamp and because of the lack of software.
didnt have boot camp in 2005 no one cared about it then didnt even think it was possible
Apple would still be a much smaller company and less popular (probably) as their would be less software to go with the computers and no windows compatibility.
See my post.
You didn't have bootcamp because there was no intel chip. And even though you didn't think about running Windows on a Mac, it doesn't mean that other people haven't bought Macs for the first time because they were able to run Windows for applications they need for things such as work. Therefore if there is no Intel, Apple doesn't have these types of customers, or even any enterprise customers.
Ok correction, no windows compatibility to the extent or with the smoothness we have now... sounds better?
whys everyone so down on ppc? especially surprising in the PPC section of this forum. the modern ancestors of the PPC can be quite powerful (e.g the PPC chips used in games consoles, and the POWER chips used in some IBM Servers)
same here about to set up my G4 QS as one of my main comps againI love PowerPC macs Well the G4's anyway - The perfect combination of Power and reliability).
same here about to set up my G4 QS as one of my main comps again
it defeats the purpose if u need to run windows on ur mac to just windows applications there there no point in having a mac just like if u run WIndows apps on linux just use windows. same principal.
If they switched to IBM Power since PowerPC is derived off it and they are highly compatible. It should have been possible. Then the iMac and Powermac would utterly dominate i7 and Xeon with the Power7.
Current top i7 ~120Gflops
Current top Xeon ~160Gflops
Current top Power7 ~265Gflops
They also use a lot of power so the laptops would suck. I also have no idea how much Power7 costs. It would probably come down a lot as production could have really ramped up. Part of why PowerPC lagged was because Apple was the only customer and IBM had to modify the Power CPU it wasn't worth it to them to try very hard. The G5 was based off the Power4 and the Power5 had already been out for quite a while when the G5 was discontinued.
In all Macs would be much less relevant to consumers and iOS would be much more important to Apple. Although Apple would probably have much more of an inroad with media professionals, scientists and others in need of high end workstations and entry level mainframes. Perhaps have made OS X a variant of Z/OS instead of UNIX.
It's an interesting thing to think about, where would apple be if they had stayed with ppc? In 2006, the G5's where starting to surpass the 2.ghz margin so by now would that be in the 3ghz levels? You thoughts please
WTF is a flop?!
We'd have slow ass notebooks with no Windows compatibility.
I was at WWDC 2006. The Pentium 4's were so much faster than the G5s it was shocking. The sense was that Apple had pulled the wool over everyone's eyes when it came to PowerPC vs. Intel. It was hard not to feel like Apple had been lying about PowerPC vs. Intel for the few years before.
Also stop comparing the Power7. They're not at all PowerPCs. They require giant, giant boxes and huge power supplies. It's like comparing a dump truck to a F-150. Yeah, you can haul more, but it's not something you'd actually ever regularly drive. The Power series also existed alongside the PowerPC and they were always significantly faster than the PowerPCs, so it's not and accurate comparison.
(Power7s are also $10,000. So you're talking about a Power Mac that would be $10,000. You could easily buy several Xeons for that price.)