On 7/7/09 3:57 PM, James E. Therrault at <jetas...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> Bottom line was the lack of fast low power chips for laptops that
> ultimately resulted in the switch.  Had a low power G5 chip been
> produced, there would be no Apple Intel today.


The other thing that burned the marketing image of IBM-Mororola-Apple was
the "GHz Chip race". When all the PC market was proudly announcing 1GHz
computers, Apple for a relatively long time had to conform to the
duo-processed 600MHz Macs.
 




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