Star Macs to Get Real POWER?
Linked by Nicholas Blachford on Mon 15th Jul 2002 01:14 UTC
Editorial According to a brief paragraph on MacOS Rumours Apple may be switching to IBM POWER4 CPUs instead of the Motorola G5 for future Macs.
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Re: Power4 cost
by Eugenia on Mon 15th Jul 2002 02:06 UTC

hehehe... you are missing the point that power4 is fast *because* of its 100+ MB of cache. Take that out, or give it a "normal" 2 MB of cheap cache and it will now be just like any other cpu perfromance-wise, maybe even slower. All its power is in the cache. And it will still be expensive to produce anyway.
As I said above, I will just pass this rumour.