Except Moto can't get the damned thing out the door in quantity at a
reasonable price, and would really rather make other chips anyway.
I assume you mean "Freescale", not "Motorola".
It's a new chip, and it's a little late but not much later than Yonah.
Geez, it's not like the people running Apple are blind to the things
we see. Steve Jobs is neither stupid or capricious (on this scale
anyway). There's a meme out there that "Steve Jobs threw a hissy fit
and decided to switch Apple to Intel chips", and amazingly enough,
people are *buying* this bull.
I'm not. I don't think Steve threw a hissy fit, no matter how hard he
tried to convince everyone he did. I don't think this has anything to
do with the G5, or the G4, or Freescale, or IBM.
I think it has to do with something that Steve has been trying to do
since he came back to Apple, and something that happened on the Apple
Store late in 2004.
Apple has, since before the G5 came out, "cancelled" the last G4s that
were OS/9 bootable. Every time OS/9-bootable G4s vanished from the
Apple Store, they got forced by customer demand to bring them back.
They finally managed to do it in late 2004.
What does this mean? It means that the demand for OS 9 has finally
fallen below the threshold where Apple risks alienating customers by
abandoning pre-carbon applications.
Now remember, when Jobs came back to Apple the plan was to switch from
Mac OS to Rhapsody using Openstep (Yellow Box) and only provide an
emulation environment (Blue Box) for classic applications. PLUS, they
were pushing Rhapsody on Intel, fat binaries, everything they're
talking about now.
Adobe hit them with a double whammy: not only did they refuse to port
Photoshop to OpenStep, they refused to cut a deal on Display
Postscript. So we got Carbon, and a more gradual transition.
Apple is finally able to complete the transition they planned back
around 1997, maybe 5 years later than they hoped. They said they've had
OSX for Intel in the queue for 5 years... they've had it longer than
that. OpenStep was already on Intel before Apple bought NeXT.
THAT is what this is all about. Not any new problems with the Power PC.
The G5 hasn't made it to 3 MHz, but it's done better at improving
performance over where it was 4 years ago than the Pentium 4 has. The
Powerbook is not a desktop replacement, but neither are any comparable
(slim-line, long battery-life) Intel-based notebooks. These are just
excuses. The real reason is
Had Apple been able to count on Moto's dual core chips or others from
IBM, they wouldn't have undertaken this sea change in their design.
They would have some up with some other excuse. Apple has been wanting
to make this change for almost 10 years now. Jobs thought the Power PC
was a bad idea right from the start, but that decision had been made
for him while he was out of the loop at NeXT.
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