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Um. What? This is just incredibly wrong. The major Windows rewrite (re-implementing a big...
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Although they promise to by year end, well, they haven't said lowest priority in their universe right now, but the Powermac is on the plate.
Wrong. Their server clbutt processors will run circles around the G5 now. Didn't used to be the case, but it is now.
And you know this because....
Mitch To be fair, Apple doesn't promise anything. We have no idea how many features have been cut from each of the 0.1 incremental updates. It could be...
And you know this because....
Reports are that IBM are ecstatic to be free of Jobs, and plenty busy on the gaming front and their own server products.
Server offerings. Because HP and Sun's servers run circles around theirs. But, even those will outrun a G5. Sorry.
It's supposedly short-term, but that depends upon believing that AMD can't peddle while Intel is doing the same.
Probably a contract about 900 pages thick is in the way. I'd guess an exclusive deal for n months at a minimum. They saw they were losing Dell and must have put a very hard sell on Apple.
It might happen though. And if Intel misses their dates, like IBM missed on G5 clock speeds, Jobs will be splitting at the seams.
Some major breakthrough in heat evacuation from a chbuttis or lower-power circuitry is required. It's a physics problem.
-- Lefty All of God's creatures have a place.......... .........right next to the potatoes and gravy.