Star P.A. Semi's PPC Announcement, and Looking Back at The Switch
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Oct 2005 20:09 UTC
Apple "There have been a few recent PowerPC announcements that have caused the Mac Faithful to wonder anew about The Switch and the "real" reasons behind it. First, there was the 970FX announcement, which clearly showed that IBM is capable of putting out a 970 processor that compares quite well with the Pentium M in performance/watt. And then there's the 970MP, which Apple has used to make a monster of a quad-processor 64-bit RISC workstation. To make matters even more interesting, P.A. Semi has just announced a dual-core 64-bit PowerPC processor SoC that, if the specs and numbers are to be believed, could take PowerPC to a whole new performance/watt level."
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by Matt Giacomini on Thu 27th Oct 2005 20:34 UTC
Matt Giacomini
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2005-07-06

Will Apple save money (meaning make more money) by switching to Intel? If so then that is your reason.

It is funny how people think that companies care about anything, but money..

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RE: Price
by on Thu 27th Oct 2005 23:13 in reply to "Price"
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Actually, I do think Jobs cares about things other than money (and when you talk about what Apple "cares about", you may as well be talking about what Jobs cares about).

I'm sure it's worth something to Jobs to be head of a company that makes quality products and cool products. Now, I'm not claiming that's because he's all benevolent and cares about you, but at the very least he cares about his own ego, and wants to be able to look Bill Gates in the eyes and think, "I make better products than you."

Being an egomaniac and control freak sounds bad, but Apple customers benefit anyhow.

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