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Offline DyLucke

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Re: Market research for new PowerPC system
« on: September 24, 2009, 12:17:45 PM »
Well, i don't think this is a bad idea, but the project shoud be able to handle PCIe video cards, PLUS not have the CPU embedded, being able to be replaced for a more powerful one by the user. To be able to fit a 2ghz dual G4 would provide a more than enough power for all our needs... combined with an efficient video card of course. Specially since G4 Mac Mini, has poor video capabilities and and sort of a short CPU computing power.

However i don't know if after MOS is ported to the macmini G4, the team will head over the rest of the Apple's G4 architectures... If so, i wonder if a new board having same capabilities than these discontinued systems could compete under pricing terms.
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Re: Market research for new PowerPC system
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2009, 11:04:28 PM »
I don't think PPC is dead at all... IBM made a lot of money selling PPC based servers, and it still make money with that... Power 7 is around the bend, and it will catch up with Intel and AMD again. PPC's are cheaper to produce than any X86 architecture...

EVEN, XBOX360, Wii and PS3 do use PPC, and that's nothing new. I bet they will be using PPC still on their next gen consoles. So PPC is not dead at all. If you don't like "fresh air" on the PPC scene, just stick up with windoze and the X86 shit.

X86 are faster? Yeah they are, but that doesn't mean PPC's are lame or something...
« Last Edit: September 24, 2009, 11:07:04 PM by DyLucke »
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