[Ti] Fwd: [Ti] The Benchmarks - Question about G5 portable

[John Griffin]

A.J.Bos typed this message on 9/19/03 6:26 PM:

>> That could easily result in a G5-based machine that was only
>> marginally faster, on paper, than the already-popular G4 books. Not
>> such a wise move, considering they're 'lucky', in a way, that IBM is
>> cutting them in on the G5 action, anyway. Remember IBM is going to be
>> using what they must hope are huge numbers of G5s to run servers and
>> whatnot. If the IBM G5, scalable, Linux-running, server takes off,
>> well, the plant over there in Fishkill (or wherever) is going to be in
>> overdrive.
>> 
> 
> Exactly, one of the other things that might keep Apple from making a G5
> laptop are the yields of the IBM plant. IIRC, that plant has to produce
> chips not only for Apple, but also for the AS400, the AIX machines and
> their mainframes. And if |'m not mistaken, that plant had some power
> outage recently.

Thanks guys. Hey, it is a real pleasure to be able to get knowledgeable
answers like this from people who really know what they are talking about.

So, a dual G3 with Altivec... Sounds great! I can't wait!

jg