[Ti] Re: like hell freezing over ?

[Chris Olson]

On Jun 9, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Peter Krug wrote:

> I ask you this: What would WWDC been like if Steve came out and said 
> that G5 development had stalled, and while Macs are still twice as 
> fast as PC's, we don't have a plan to solve the problem.

How is there no plan?  The G5 and Mac OS X is designed around parallel 
computing.  If you need more power - throw more processors at the task 
instead of cranking the voltage on the bus.  Xgrid, Xsan with Fibre 
Channel interconnects do exactly that.  But it could be done in one box 
too.  What's wrong with a quad-cpu PowerMac for high-end tasks?  Or a 
dual cpu machine with dual core cpu's?  Or a dual core cpu in a 
PowerBook for that matter?  The technology is there.  At least with 
PowerPC it is.  Intel is still trying to catch up to AMD on x86.
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Chris