[X4U] Apple's move to Intel 64 bit?

[Richard Gilmore]

So maybe buying a G5 PPC will still be a better option in the medium term?

I thought the performance increase from 32 to 64 bit would negate any clock
speed advantage Intel has?


On 7/6/05 12:35 PM, "James Jones" <jsjones at mac.com> wrote:

> This isn't surprising, for the moment, since the first Intel models
> will be replacing G4s, not G5s (and 64-bit Intel chips will be
> neither cheap, nor plentiful for at least another 12 to 18 months).
> The Apple roadmap keeps 64-bit class machines on PPC until 2007.
> 
> On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:23 AM, Scott McCulloch wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Richard Gilmore wrote:
>> 
>>> Will the MacTel's Pentiums be 64bit?
>> 
>> Not according to this:
>> http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050607081920942
>> 
>> Which does seem disappointing, or confusing, or something to me,
>> given Apple's insistence that 64bit was an important step for OS X,
>> one of the benefits of G5s, etc. I certainly bought the argument...
>> so I'm not quite sure how to take this.
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