On 22 February 2016 at 17:36, Mazzini Alessandro <mazzi...@tin.it> wrote: > Not to intrude, but apple could also have gone with the serious power cpu, > thus not "needing" to move to x86. As long as there's enough of a push, sw > houses release versions for a different architecture... and power is hardly > a dead end.
The problem is that the mainstream PC market is increasingly going to portables. Laptops outsell desktops 2 times over now. POWER chips are still going strong but they're big and run hot taking lots of power. Apple needed a CPU line that could offer good notebook chips as well as desktop chips, and POWER (and PowerPC) was only addressing desktop devices. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)
