On 2005-06-10 04:20:25 +0300, ZnU <znu@fake.invalid> said:
In article <Cp1qe.26441$J12.21905@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>,
Kelly Hall <khall@acm.org> 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.
I'm quite certain Apple also wants the later desktop chips that will
be based on it. Processors that evolve from the current Pentium-M
architecture are eventually going to take over Intel's entire lineup,
or so say the roadmaps. Even the high-end Xeon's market segment will
be filled by such chips by the end of 2007. Turns out Intel can design
a pretty good chip when it's not buying into its own MHz myth (which
it isn't with this architecture, unlike with the P4).
Hi,
I wonder did you ever run Pentium 4 on RDRAM setup (Rambus). The first
ones came with RDRAM, I had 512mb RDRAM and it rocked here. E.g. it
wasn't slower than P3 :) Slower than my g5.
Is there a hope that RDRAM is coming back with those home setups? I know
its not "dead", its just moved to pro market. Oh and suing everyone
around. :)
As we accept the unacceptable, lets hope they go with whatever the best
available ignoring the price.