On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:40 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
The biggest winner will be Apple's laptops, which will get the
Pentium M and
centrino chipset, with all the speed and power savings that brings
to the
table, from OFF THE SHELF parts.
Freescale MPC8641 Intel Pentium M
L2 cache 1MB 2MB
Clock 1.5 GHz + 1.5-2 GHz
Bus 2x677 MHz 533 MHz
Controller Internal 915 or 855 family
The e600 is a system-on-a-chip. It doesn't need most of the
external chipset: it's got 2 PCI-X ports, two memory ports, and
a 2.5 Gb/s interconnect. It's a desktop chip with laptop power
levels. And the G4 core is faster clock-for-clock. And then
there's the MPC8641D.
And that's not even looking at the e700 3 GHz 32/64-bit chips, because
after all, that's just on the "roadmap".
Well, you may be correct in all of this, but Apple, who is certainly
more in the know about what is and isn't coming down the pike than
all of us, has made the huge decision to move to Intel away from the
PPC.
You have to ask why.
The glib answer is because IBM pissed off Jobs by not getting the
3Ghz G5 out. That's BS.
Apple is a BIG, publicly traded company...it doesn't do things like
this on the CEO's whim. Steve has a persona to maintain, but he's a
damned astute businessman, surrounded by other damned astute managers
and engineers.
SOMETHING made them decide to pull the ripcord on the PPC
architecture, because from where I stand, this is about the last
thing I expect they WANT to do right now, because it has the
potential to completely FUBAR the momentum Apple's got going vis-a-
vis OS X versus Windows in the public mind. Intel and Windows are so
deeply and intimately combined in public perception, I half expect to
see headlines "Apple switching to Windows."
This isn't a race you wanna switch horses in the middle of, unless
there's something really bad about your current horse everyone else
doesn't know about.
--
Bruce Johnson
This is the sig who says 'Ni!'
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