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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by Nick Collingridge on Mon 15th Jul 2002 17:52 UTC

A minor point, but isn't the name G4 an Apple invention? Motorola's names are the number 7400, 7450 etc etc. So if Apple chooses to use a Power4 chip and call it a G5, surely that would be fine and dandy? It wouldn't have to be a Motorola designed chip at all on that basis...