Re: How many times must Apple make such DRASTIC architecture changes?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Kelly Hall wrote:
> Sean Fahey wrote:
>
> > The PPC wasn't going to go where Apple needed , fast enough. The 
> > Pentium 4
> > is actually a pretty good processor, with better branching and latency 
> > then
> > the PPC. Now they've got dual cores, hyper-threading - it was a good 
> > time to
> > make the change. Get over it already.
>
>
> Apple doesn't want Pentium 4, although perhaps the dual core versions 
> will sell to a segment of their market.  What Apple wants is the Pentium 
> M for the notebooks.

Agreed.  The lack of any credible mobile performance processor was the
last nail in the coffin of the PowerPC.

-michael

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