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Community => Games & Programming => Topic started by: Jonnym on Saturday, December 05, 2009, 05:15:19 AM
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Remember when apple used PowerPC processors, The CPUs used in XBOX360, PS3 and the worlds biggest super computers, Truly the superior processor but apple diched it and went Intel, Why, Mucho Profit for Apples shareholders! Use much cheaper hardware but sell it at the same rediculusly high price, Greedy bastards.
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I agree with this. Some greedy bastards those bonkers were (are!).
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I honestly see no problem with going the Intel route except for keeping the prices high. It does appear that they used the less-popular server-style 771 socket though... I guess they're still trying to make hardware choices for people. I wouldn't be surprised if they make Intel manufacturer a custom chip just for them.
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Don't think they will. According to rumors (and mind, Macintosh rumors aren't generally much in-miss to what really is going under the ropes), Apple has bought some abandoned factories and has ever since started to tidy the space, recreate architectures and bring in machinery to operate with. It is said that Apple intends to start manufacturing their own chips and processors. Obviously, this will mean clipping off Intel's wings.
I have no idea how they intend to do this, how long it will take, whether it is already happening or not, nor how that will eventually affect Apple's machines. I also read that they are working on a whole new OS base to apply in all of their products.
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I think that would be great. It's really sad to see a lot of rich yuppies buying Macs then just dualbooting XP. They could spend half the money and get a system just as good that is 100x more upgradeable. Then they could dualboot XP with the free version of Mac; Linux :D
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You're comparing game consoles use of a certain architecture to that of personal computers, which is apples and oranges.
Game consoles don't need to worry about standards, forwards and backwards compatibility, etc. as much as you would with a CPU for a PC.
We can argue about PowerPC vs x86 but it boils down to the #1 downfall of Mac's were the lack of software (we can debate the price issue as well but you're paying for R&D of the OS when you buy Mac hardware) -- sure back then you could run VirtualPC and emulate a x86 (at like 10% native speed - not even kidding), but now you can dual-boot or run a OS at pretty much native speed. The compatibility issue has been resolved. Now for people making the "switch", they can rest assured that everything they have on their PC will work fine on the Mac.
Also remember the G5 ran crazy hot, which is why you saw no laptops use the CPU. Apple was promised a 3GHz G5 a year after the 2GHz shipped, and when that time came all IBM could muster up was a overclocked G5 which threw off even more heat and forced Apple to try their hand at liquid cooling (didn't exactly go well).
But of course after Apple's long rivalry with Intel and after all the propaganda put out (mostly by Apple), it's going to be hard for some Apple loyalists to accept the change. But it's for the best.
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Also remember the G5 ran crazy hot, which is why you saw no laptops use the CPU. Apple was promised a 3GHz G5 a year after the 2GHz shipped, and when that time came all IBM could muster up was a overclocked G5 which threw off even more heat and forced Apple to try their hand at liquid cooling (didn't exactly go well)..
It didn't really run that hot. I have one right here and it runs perfectly fine at a reasonable temperature of 120F :) That is running marathon in the alpha one engine while building gcc:)