"The rest of the server world can play with their piddling 2-3GHz chips. IBM, meanwhile, is prepared to deal in the 5GHz realm. The hardware maker has unveiled a Power6-based version of its highest-end Unix server - the Power 595. The box runs on 32 dual-core 5GHz Power6 processors, making it a true performance beast. This big box completes a protracted roll out of the Power6 chip across IBM's Unix server line."
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Member since:2005-07-08
I doubt apple is short-sighted, because probably Apple had roadmaps of this CPU before they switched to intel.
Don't people realize that IBM is not making desktop/laptop-oriented CPUs anymore? Did you noticed what kind of cooling has this CPU? Watercooling. Yeah, it's without doubt the best CPU you can choose for Apple's desktop and laptops.
Member since:2007-07-31
the power architecture was screwing the apple laptops.... regardless of how good the architecture was itself, heat was spiraling out of control... THAT was why apple barely upped the ghz when everybody else seemed to.
If apple hadnt switched then I dont think they'd be doing nearly as well now as a company. Maybe its a shame they didnt keep the pros and xserves as PPC (shit I still love my ppc 1mb cache G4 cube)
After Apple announced the switch to go to intel and suggestions of the core2duo chips... IBM then announced the 2 core ppcs.. in an effort I believe to draw them back... but
What must have been irking apple however is that IBM was too busy chasing ALL 3 console manufacturers for business... compared to that Apple was just a 2nd rate small fry customer.
On hindsight, macs would still not run windows, and would still not have any decent games...
I really thought that once macs ran windows they would just become another high tier commodity platform (such as alienware and sony vaio) but one thing that seems to have prevailed is that people seem to far prefer using OSX and then windows on top of that, or at the most using Windows in a dual boot environment.
That is one reason why I dont think we'll see OSX on generic machines, and also the sting apple got last time they tried to license their os to 3rd parties.
Member since:2007-10-18
Member since:2005-07-23
16 4.7GHz dual-cores at 600 Gflops = 37.5 Gflops / 4.7GHz dual-core. I don't know what the current Intels does? I found a post from 17 may 2005 regarding PS3 specs saying:
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS
(jmf Pentium 4~25-30 GFLOPS, pacman anm)
So if a P4 back when ran at 25-30 Gflops it's not very impressive. Maybe it doesn't scale perfectly but anyway.
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2005-09-06
lol, thats what I was thinking of. I dont think apple will switch back, but it does look short sighted of them. Who knows though, maybe the chip is like a c7 running at 5Ghz, and isnt worth the time of day that a p4 at 4Ghz was worth.