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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Apple is trying to move forward in different areas. Motorola has really put Apple in a jam...well, they're laying off thousands of workers themselves...but Apple has stuck with them all this time. I don't know, maybe Apple has made a mistake by doing that as Motorola is a large and diverse company and it's hard to be their number one priority in those circumstances. In the past, I've always thought rumors of Apple going to Intel, for example, were insane. But now, I don't know. Things are happening so fast and Jobs is trying to drive Apple in certain directions. The thing is, Apple *must* keep up. The "megahertz myth" was okay for awhile, but now Windows XP runs like lightning on our 1.3 Celeron box. And OS X is okay, but no speed demon on my wife's G4 700 eMac. If any OS needs a fast processor, it's OS X. I can't see someone like Jobs waiting around forever - that is not in his make-up.
So, the rumor is that new Power Macs will come out in August with maybe 1.2 or 1.4 GHz models and dual processors. If that's true, that is not enough. I'm pro-Apple...I don't show it here much because I like using all OS's. Objectively though, I really do think a healthy Apple is good for the computer industry. But my God, you can get entire P4 systems from Dell and Gateway for $599!!