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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I remember someone from Transmeta was asked whether they could emulate a PowerPC CPU. The answer given was that it "should be possible" or something similar. Whatever Apple does they should really try to move away from a Megahertz designation of the chip since many people are incapable of grasping the fact that clock speed is not a measurement of performance. While the very latest Pentium IVs are an improvement, the previous ones are junk. I tested two extremely similar systems, one with 1200Mhz Celeron and the other with a 1600Mhz P IV. The Celeron had better performance in most areas, probably due to an L1 cache two times larger.