Linked by Nicholas Blachford on Mon 15th Jul 2002 01:14 UTC
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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Having been burned by an iMac, I vowed not to buy Apple again. Apple have started improving their act a bit, and before I can consider them again, they need to do the following:
1. Release a **fast** system. They need to increase the speed of their CPU (G5, power4, whatever), increase their RAM speed (currently 133MHz), increase their bus speed (also 133MHz), use a faster GPU (GF4-4600), faster harddrives (at least 7200 RPM). All these speed increases should not cost more than what a current PowerMac costs. $ for $, I can get a dual Xeon with SMT from Dell for an equavalent amount to what Apple charge for PowerMac. I'll take a Dual Xeon with SMT any day.
2. Make OSX as fast as BeOS. Introduce journalling to HFS+/UFS. Use a MIME type filesystem with attributes, with database features (or port XFS or BeFS). Improve display speeds. Scrolling through a directory listing via Finder is still sloooooooowwwww.
Thats basically it. $ for $, currently its wiser for me to buy a Xeon system from Dell and run Win2K and (hopefully) OBOS.