--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The G4/G5 processor's 128-bit vectorprocessor is what made > > the PowerMac G4 a "supercomputer." The equivalent on the > > Intel side isn't nearly as good. > > And, yet, PC's and Macs are still pretty much neck and neck in terms > of performance. In fact, dual proc Intel Xeons beat a dual proc AMD > and squished the dual G4 like a bug; the Mac came in dead last by a > large margin. The G5's faster front side bus speed evened things out, > but it makes perfect sense for Apple to switch to a CPU maker whose > primary business is making CPU's and whose procs are advancing in > power far more quickly than IBM's. > > Alex
sure, but the transition is going to be very rocky. Notice that it is happening on the low-end first, with Minis and the like. The place where INtel's speed advantage counts is on the high-end, which will be the last to be converted over to x86. This should tell you something about how odd the whole thing is going to be. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
