[G4] Intel vs PPC

[Frank Sudore]

Sorry I type with boxing gloves on
On Feb 19, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Eric Wood wrote:

> Am 19.02.2009 um 20:18 schrieb Frank Sudore:
>
>> There is no comparison between the intel & PPC. I have a Macpro  
>> Tower and it blows a Quadcore G5 i sold away. Especially with  
>> Photoshop & Cinema 4d.
>> Mac made the right move to go to intel although I would of like to  
>> have seen what AMD would of done for them.
>
> It's getting really annoying to see "of" in place of "have" just  
> because people have lazy pronunciations ("have" sounds like "of," so  
> now folks are freaking writing it that way).
>
> Anyway, I think the PowerPC 750 is a viable chip - it just needs a  
> decent platform to use it. I haven't had the opportunity to compare  
> Apple's G5s to their Intels, but considering that PowerPC chips have  
> come to power modern game consoles, I think Apple's implementation  
> may have been flawed. It's sad to see it go like that, and it may  
> well be that Apple didn't care to fully utilise the chip with those  
> Intel plans underway. The slower they made the G5 systems (relative  
> to their new Intel machines), the better the Intel switch would  
> look. Same tactic they used to keep one PPC Mac model from  
> cannibalising sales of another, which is what my iBook G4  
> demonstrates. It has a very time cache size (256k I think) to make  
> its 933 MHz feel pretty lame compared to whatever the PowerBook G4s  
> were doing.
>
> Eric W.
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