compare the newst offerings from apple and intel.. the 1.33-.1.5 ghz G4 and the 1.8-2.0 ghz pentium m.... the pentium m at 2 ghz is much faster than the 1.5 g4.. heck its even a better chip at 1.5 then the g4 is at 1.5...... so why is apple falling behind in moble processor speeds.... 1 reason
Intel researches and creates the pentium m (and designs it...) SPECIFICLY for mobile computers... apples problem is they create desktop processors (whether ibm or moto) and then wait to 'fit' them in a laptop... where as intel realizes that there should be two entirely different approaches... the pentium m is going to keep getting better... and by the time the g5 reaches the laptops, they will be merely 'catching up' with the comperable pcs.. then the Pcs will come out with the 64 bit pentium m like chip that will distroy the g5 and once again apple will be behind... before i argued that apple needed to make an ultraportable computer... well what i should ahve said... is that apple should seperate their desktop and laptop researching.... when the g5 hits the powerbook in 'two thousand and.. whenever' (steve jobs talking about longhorn... keynote... january)... it will be a trimmed down single processers at underclocked because of heat issues.... where apple should be reasearching BOTH mobile AND desktop processors... they are actually just researching desktop... and when they are done with that, they start tyring to get that desktop processor to fit in the mobile form factor....
apple needs to get their act together and start some reaserching on mobile processors....
all this being said.. im STILL buying an apple because OS X is THAT good... i'd take a slower apple machine running OS X any day of the week over a fast wintel machine that will crash on me all the time..
apples are STILL a better value because of OS X and design and hardware quality (not counting speed)... but i think they can do better in the mobile area... (yes i still think that the duel 2.0 ghz is the fastest computer in that price range... competing with P4 EE)
haha now i know im going to be attacked by a whole crowd of apple fanatics... saying stuff like 'the g4 is better than the fastest pentium 4, the fastest pentium m, blah blah blah..... oh well im ready for that
i think the new powerbook g5s shoudl use that carbon light and durable formfacter... something that stands outand screams... 'look at me, im different'
Intel researches and creates the pentium m (and designs it...) SPECIFICLY for mobile computers... apples problem is they create desktop processors (whether ibm or moto) and then wait to 'fit' them in a laptop... where as intel realizes that there should be two entirely different approaches... the pentium m is going to keep getting better... and by the time the g5 reaches the laptops, they will be merely 'catching up' with the comperable pcs.. then the Pcs will come out with the 64 bit pentium m like chip that will distroy the g5 and once again apple will be behind... before i argued that apple needed to make an ultraportable computer... well what i should ahve said... is that apple should seperate their desktop and laptop researching.... when the g5 hits the powerbook in 'two thousand and.. whenever' (steve jobs talking about longhorn... keynote... january)... it will be a trimmed down single processers at underclocked because of heat issues.... where apple should be reasearching BOTH mobile AND desktop processors... they are actually just researching desktop... and when they are done with that, they start tyring to get that desktop processor to fit in the mobile form factor....
apple needs to get their act together and start some reaserching on mobile processors....
all this being said.. im STILL buying an apple because OS X is THAT good... i'd take a slower apple machine running OS X any day of the week over a fast wintel machine that will crash on me all the time..
apples are STILL a better value because of OS X and design and hardware quality (not counting speed)... but i think they can do better in the mobile area... (yes i still think that the duel 2.0 ghz is the fastest computer in that price range... competing with P4 EE)
haha now i know im going to be attacked by a whole crowd of apple fanatics... saying stuff like 'the g4 is better than the fastest pentium 4, the fastest pentium m, blah blah blah..... oh well im ready for that
i think the new powerbook g5s shoudl use that carbon light and durable formfacter... something that stands outand screams... 'look at me, im different'