Re: Apple and the Holy War

[Mike Pfaiffer <pfaiffer@mbnet.mb.ca>]

Supertimer wrote:
> 
> Mike Pfaiffer <pfaiffer@mbnet.mb.ca> wrote:
> 
> >Supertimer wrote:
> ><snip>
> >       I agree with your assertion Apple blew it. The G4 was a great chip for
> >a few months. Now what are they going to do? They can't say our machine
> >is just as fast as a 1GHz chip. The architecture and structure of the G4
> >might bring it close. Unless they come out with a G5 or something a lot
> >of PC owners may include this arguement as to why their machines should
> >be bought rather than Macs.
> 
> The G4 is a great chip that's hampered by one thing.  They can't
> get the clock speed higher easily.  If they could get the G4 to
> operate at 1Ghz, it'll toast any Athlon or Pentium III.  I've read
> that it is precisely because of the superior architecture of the G4
> that they have a hard time increasing the clock speed.
> 
> At a certain point, clock speed would make up for any architecture
> advantages.  I think the 1Ghz Athlon has reached this point.
> 
> There are several things Apple can do.  One possibility is to
> release an x86 compatible MacOS as they had planned to
> do before Rhapsody morphed into MacOS-X.  This would allow
> MacOS to compete in the open.  MacOS is an extremely
> refined OS better than Windows in many ways and I'm sure
> it would make a great splash in the PC world.  At least as well
> as Linux is doing but I predict much better.  PC users do not
> have the same emotional hatred of the MacOS as Mac users
> do of Windows.  I, for one, like MacOS.
> 
> The second possibility is to jump ship.  If Motorolla cannot
> up the G4's clock speed soon enough and Athlons reach the
> point of 1.5Ghz or even 2Ghz, then an integrated PowerPC
> emulation within the MacOS would be possible.  Apple could
> make the same jump it did when it switched from 68k to PPC.

	I'll confess I have only a cursory knowledge of my next question. Do
you think if they used the Transmeta chip things would improve?

				Later
				Mike




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