<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Aug 24, 2005, at 8:01 PM, Mike Bigley wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">One thing that Apple has proven of IBM: while they make great products they cannot produce them in quantities to satisfy even Apple's market share.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>At least not at the price Apple is willing to pay for their special fabs. I can buy IBM PowerPC dual core Blade servers by the trainload - absolutely no problems with supply of cpu's. And they cost less than an Xserve to boot.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It's more like Apple's G5 sales were pretty dismal after the initial introduction. They didn't move the product volume they told IBM they'd move. After awhile IBM stopped answering Steve's phone calls.</DIV><DIV>--</DIV><DIV>Chris</DIV></BODY></HTML>