I still feel that the PPC architecture is cleaner and better. But IBM isn't really interested in developing it at the pace that Apple needs. If Apple invests $350 million as did Sony, fine. But why should they do that? It would only bring the cost of the cpu up that much further.
The Cell - ha! The amount of work that it would take to get that to be competitive would be enormous. And it might not work.
Whatever works in the lab means nothing in the real world. IBM sampled 2.8GHz G5's two years ago, where are they?
Apple had no choice. They did what was best for the future.
The Amgia community should be so lucky as to have someone like Jobs who can make a decision and run with it.
Sparky wrote:
T_Bone wrote:
Heh, they might just as well announce a 10Ghz G5, without a computer that uses it being available, who's going to know if they're making it up or not? ;-)
Well 6Ghz ones do exist in IBM R&D labs ... had a presentation the other month from a US IBM R&D guy, being an IBMer has it's advantages :-D
