i am writing this from a power pc g4 1.67 watching a 720p alexandare... yes i need pause it for writing this. i can listen moby's last album in last version of itunes... i am running a 10.5.7 with 2 GB ram... yes i am running with actual production machine for home with CS4 series... with only 5200 rpm drive... yes it is a powerbook G4 in his 4 years... think about 4 years old Windows with Intel... what they can use now? 2009/7/8 Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com>
> > 2009/7/7 Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu>: > > > > > > On Jul 7, 2009, at 7:10 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > > > >> IBM had problems? Not as I recall. POWER was doing great. PowerPC was > >> merely an adaptation of the high-end POWER multi-chip processors into > >> a lower-end single-chip device utilising the Motorola 88000 bus, > >> designed for PC-type kit. > > > > > > IBM never managed a low power G5, and Moro couldn't get more > > performance outof the PPC series. Apple (along with all the other PC > > manufacturers) live and die by their laptop lines, and the inability > > of either Moto or IBM to deliver low power, high performance chips > > suited for laptops was strangling Apple there. > > I presume that the first "Moro" = "Moto"? > > Well, the thing is, there I was talking about the genesis of the > PowerPC in the early 1990s and you're talking about its effective end > in the mid-noughties. The problems that caused its creation were > unrelated to those that caused its demise. > > -- > Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com > Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 > AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven > MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 > > > > -- Baha Ata --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
