OFFLIST: [Ti] Mactel powerbooks coming...when?

[Dr Trevor J. Hutley]

Chris - a great shot from both barrels !

I can see dozens of mail on the same topic, and I am sure you will  
get it in the neck.  But don't let it make you quit the list again !   
Some of us REALLY value your input and perspective.  It is so helpful  
to me.

Did you have the time to report that Keynote bug to Apple yet?

I opened a template in Pages today and got a similar message about (a  
different kind of) missing font,  One I had never heard of.  But I  
can live with that.

TREVOR

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On 15 Nov 2005, at 07:00, Chris Olson wrote:

> On Nov 14, 2005, at 5:23 PM, Matt Kibildis wrote:
>
>> with Intel you are going to get a chip that is highly efficient  
>> with its voltage requirements, with accordingly very low heat, and  
>> a longer life than extremely hot AMD chips.  So why not have Intel  
>> macs?
>
> You mean like Intel's new top-of-the-line server processor?  400  
> watts?  Perhaps you should read up on it:
>
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/22/0714240&from=rss
>
> http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewstory.php?t=65120
>
> By comparison the dual-core PowerPC 970MP only consumes 100 watts  
> at peak, 60 watts with one core shut down, and 40 watts with one  
> core shut down and the other one clocked back to "low power" mode.   
> In "sleep" mode the PowerPC 970MP only consumes about 5 watts with  
> both cores running - about 3 watts with one shut down.  Perhaps you  
> should read up on it:
>
> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5913921.html
>
> Intel has a long history of making promises that they don't deliver  
> on.  If you want to take a look at that history I'd be glad to  
> outline it for you off-list so as to not offend the people who  
> believe this to be the end-all for Apple.
>
> Otherwise, of course Apple will have Intel-powered PowerBooks.   
> They've already said that.  Will they be the pie-in-the-sky miracle  
> machines that hopeful Mac users think they will be?  No.  They'll  
> be the same identical thing that you get from Dell at the same  
> time.  There's no mysteries here - Intel's processor roadmap is  
> laid out clear as day well thru the time that Apple has said they  
> will introduce them in Macs.
>
> Based on Intel's history of processor releases, Yonah will be out  
> the door late and subsequently delay Apple's introduction of Intel- 
> powered portables.  The next thing that will happen is that the  
> gamers and hardware reviewers will benchmark Yonah and it will get  
> solidly wupped by AMD's 64-bit Turion.  The next thing that will  
> happen is that Intel will break out the infamous Intel Marketing  
> Machine but it won't work this time because AMD will win their  
> antitrust lawsuit against Intel.  Intel doesn't have much support  
> in the industry anymore - read the comments:
>
> http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-7591-0.html? 
> forumID=26&threadID=113889&messageID=1292782
>
> That's why holding out for Intel-powered Macs because it's going to  
> make PowerPC obsolete is, IMHO, a misnomer.
> -- 
> Chris
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