Re: OT- Buying new computer, which way to go?
- From: Jeremy Nixon <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 21:13:21 -0000
Tony Polson <tp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Funny how Apple used to claim that their PowerPC chips were so much
more efficient than the competitors' Intel Pentium processors that
they worked much faster despite having slower clock speeds.
When Apple changed to Intel they immediately claimed that the Intel
chips were much faster than PowerPC.
It's not funny; both of those things are true. The PPC stuff was both
faster and more efficient at the time, but IBM failed to keep up, and
the Intel chips got faster (but still not really more efficient) while
PPC didn't. So Apple switched, since IBM wasn't getting it done and
wasn't showing much interest in getting it done, as they would rather
concentrate on other markets.
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