[G4] Intel vs PPC

[keith_w]

Frank Sudore wrote:
> 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).

Interesting comment. Demonstrates clearly how people learn and use language.
If most of your learning has been filled with verbal conversation, the 
replacement of [...'ve] with "of" is understandable, as it has that sound.
Should have = should've = should of.

keith whaley

>> 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.