Linked by David W. Kuhn on Fri 10th Jun 2005 16:34 UTC
Was it Palol Rossetti that one said, "People in glass house shouldn't throw stones?" Push away the Intel this, the Pentium-M that, or perhaps the ability to use the Dual Core Pentium 4, Apple has a much bigger challenge ahead of them. For years, they have been throwing down the MHz myth and now? They are sleeping with the "enemy" according to PowerPC zealots. 
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I agree with Gregor. It's amazing how many people aren't bothering to listen to what Steve Jobs said, or the information coming out of Cupertino. They're just jumping to their own conclusions.
The fact that Apple is moving to Intel chips doesn't suddenly negate the current benchmarks. The G5 chip (and the PowerPC in general) is still an excellent chip, both in design and performance.
But Apple's decision was not for technical reasons. It was a business decision, plain and simple. It would have been much easier for them to continue on with the PowerPC line. But what do you do when your chip supplier doesn't really care about being competitive? Sure, the G5 and current Intel offerings are somewhat comparable speed-wise. But that's now. Pretend this change didn't happen and fast forward a year or two. Intel will have increased the performance of their chips, and Apple will still be begging IBM to please, please make some faster chips. IBM can just ignore their pleas, since they have three other major customers. The PowerPC family is a future dead end without a chip manufacturer willing to continue it.
No, as much as I like the PowerPC chip, this is a case where a superior design (PowerPC) lost out to a less elegant chip simply because one chip manufacturer (Intel) had more drive to compete than another.