Intel Mac comes very poor second to PPC

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WOW!

It's a dual core and it's dual the speed!

Intel, you have excelled yet again!

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Intel make the finest chipsets in the world?

A friend of mine has a Pentium 3 with onboard Intel graphics and it's a 600MHz machine with 2MB of ChipMem if you look at it in Amiga terms.

Yes, that's right - a 2MB Intel graphics chipset. It can barely do 800x600 without flickering.

Personally I was delighted when Apple announced the Dual-G5 was the World's most powerful computer. It meant for a brief time that Intel's strangle-hold on the market was loosing grip and that diversity could spring forth.

Innovative things like the Transmeta Crusoe couldn't compete, it was Intel this, AMD that.

For God's sake people. Buy something interesting. It's like everyone in the world buying a Mercedes when we could be driving minis, Smart cars, scooters, Quads and stuff.

We have to double our CPU power every 18 months! So what if we wanted to triple it... would Intel break their own Daddy's "Law"?

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Intel's chip designers probably design the bodywork for the Porsche range of cars - i.e. nothing ever really changes but it's packaged as a revolutionary new thing.

I kinda like dat compoota known as teh OMEGA!

Neat chipset inside this machine no?

EDIT:
Dammy: Appropriate company name there...  'ARS'

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I'm sorry, I was merely attempting to sabotage the thread.

Forgive me.

:-D

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by Hyperspeed:
We have to double our CPU power every 18 months! So what if we wanted to triple it... would Intel break their own Daddy's "Law"?

by bloodline:
It's not a law it was an observation of the semiconductor industry in the 70's which has held true as a general trend ever since (but it's basicly slowing).

http://www.intel.com/technology/silicon/mooreslaw/

Here's another interesting URL:
http://www.fatfree.com/recipes/salads/coleslaw

Arse Technica is pretty interesting but a little shambolic. It mixes science, videogames and tech info onto pages designed by Mr.Boring, Greysville.

One of the articles was interesting about China using secret chips to control information in public PCs (and noone knew exactly what they did).

I then accidentally stumbled across this URL:
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/year_1950.html

... it made me think about the Pentium 3's serial registration... and the Centrino.

!

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Joke:

What's the difference between an Apple laptop and a PC laptop...

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There's been a lot of questions lately such as "What makes an Amiga what it is?" and the answers have ranged from Workbench to the custom chips.

Since Apple Macintosh has been supported by Microsoft with Word etc. and Microsoft/Gates has shares in Apple... and Intel now make the CPUs...

Could someone tell me what the hell makes a Mac?

I've tried MacOS 7.5.5 on Shapeshifter and it seemed like AtariTOS. I imagine it being used with a 1-button mouse by an affected hairdresser.

Someone enlighten me what makes OSX special and why everyone is ecstatic about iBooks...

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Didn't they port Quark Express to PC?

I used to think that was a good reason to buy a Mac, like buying Lightwave was a good reason to buy an Amiga.

The world has gone so cross-platform it's hard to find anything distinct. And guess who makes money ALL the time...

Microsoft, Intel and IBM!

Who'd have thought it:

* Microsoft using IBM G5 for X-Box 360
* Apple using iNtel CPUs for new Macs

It would be nice to have a computer format made in Europe by Europeans so we not only support our own economies but cater for our own creative needs and don't have to lap up technology that panders to US visions of the future (internet enabled fridges and 'bigger and more is better!' philosophy).

We're making a start with the Galileo GPS system, maybe if we applied German precision and British inventiveness to the processor market it'd evolve in areas outside raw horsepower, legacy support and gimmicky features.

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What do you mean by Application/Document based?

Okay, so MacOSX does sound interesting but if it eats more resources than WinXP then isn't this cheating?

... being more like Amiga by being more like Windows!?

I must admit that the statement about Mac programmers knowing what they were coding for is similar to Amiga. And I do like the way a Macintosh has a recognisable, quality case design.

It puzzles me though why in this day and age we use earplugs (on the iPod for example) but not eyeplugs.

Even the PSP takes the boring old approach of a tiny little screen you have to squint at. Why not design a headset for portables that would incorporate an i-Glasses style visual display and earphones. This would do away with the need for a massive 15"+ laptop LCD screen and it's associated fragility/battery hunger.

Someone got MacOSX screenshot links?

:-)

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What happened to the other 68k machines like the Ataris and Acorns? From what I remember the Acorns went PPC too and an old Amiga company was selling the boards...

Did the Hitachi SH.x range of CPUs ever get used in the computing market?

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by blakespot:
However, if Sony or Microsoft went with a modern Pentium, their new consoles would have much more horesepower.

ATi vs nVidia, IBM vs Intel...   the Geforce GPU was the best, then the Radeon... etc. etc.

With PC hardware superseded in 3 months the scales will tip in both sides quite frequently, however the console market takes 5 years to become obsolete and as far as I can see, Microsoft chose the IBM G5 over an Intel CPU for the XBox 360.

This means Intel aren't in the next gen console wars and since they're getting a kicking from AMD in the PC side of things they must be feeling the heat (aren't they considering a server only strategy?).

Down with Intel. They've strangled the market for too long. Next I want to see Microsoft and Hewlett Packard get a beating from Google and Epson.

Maybe then smaller, more innovative companies can germinate...

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