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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doubt it
by arielb on Mon 15th Jul 2002 02:45 UTC

IBM never liked Altivec (what Apple calls the Velocity engine). It would indeed be interesting for Apple to move everyone to a 64 bit G5 when they are still trying to move everyone to Mac OS X. It does give them bragging rights in the future "all of our stuff is 64 bit vs the PC world still stuck at 32. Even with Opteron around, where is the incentive to switch"