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IBM to Release 64-Bit, 1.8GHz Processor in 2003
Professor_Quail writes "A Forbes article supposed to be released tomorrow gives some details about the new PowerPC processor that IBM and Apple have been working together on; the chip is slated to be introduced at the end of next year. The introduction of this chip should put to rest any speculation that Apple is moving to an Intel platform."
IBM server chip seen slimmed down for Apple Macs
So the IBM version still stuffs itself with pizzas, whereas the Apple version is on Slim-Fast shakes wearing a lycra outfit and eating mostly fruit (well eating Apples would be cannabalistic, unless they bring out the PowerHannibal chip variant)... ;)
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hmm.. OSX and a 1.8 GHz 64-bit proc? if only they would release one that didn't look like a desklamp, or a giant pastel egg, i'd be tempted to use one.
Switch to Windows. Windows had a bug with Year 2000, and that is passed.
Anyway, it is still a long to to 2032.
Good to see Apple back out on the cutting edge, where it belongs. 64-bit PPC architecture with marketable clock speed and OS X 10.2: holy smokes! Get to the back of the bus, Microsoft. Take your Crayola XP desktop with you.
I assume one of the Linux PPC distros will be on board with the new chip, once it's on the street. Fun for the whole family.
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Slashdotter are stupid and biased.
"The introduction of this chip should put to rest any speculation that Apple is moving to an Intel platform."
Especially since Apple has never changed their mind before, about anything major.
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I'm sure they'll spin the 64-bit thing as being 'better' just like they've convinced their loyal followers that the mhz-myth makes an 800mhz G4 perform like a 2+ Mhz Athlon or Intel processor.
:P
Well, I would hope so, that's almost 400 times as fast
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
64-bit means you can handle these huge wacky long integers. Which is important for the home user because *tud* *beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.....*
Hmm, plugs in my USB mouse. Damn, that works.
Plugs in a firewire hard drive. Shit, that works too.
Plugs in a USB scanner. Dammit, that also works!
Plugs in a Mac PCI Radeon video card, son of a... It works!
Tries a Belkin USB hub, holy moly, that works too!
But wait, my PS/2 mouse won't work! Or my parallel printer! Or my ADB tablet!
Time to move forward, eh?
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
I will strangle anyone who says "4) ???, 5) Profit."
Guess people have forgotten ASCII. Or did you really mean:
"If you stop Office/Mac, we drop the atomi
Mac OS/X for x86").
(Just guessing you meant ^H instead of ^M)
I think they should just put both 32bit and 64bit processor in computer and have a chip to decide when to use each based on how large the numberical values are. if(num > ~4.3billion) ? 64bit : 32bit
In that case they should also include an 8-bit chip, because the vast majority of values processed by any CPU is 8 bits long.
RMN
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Well, I would hope so, that's almost 400 times as fast
Actually a 2 Mhz (Megahertz) processor is millions of times faster than an 800 mhz (millihertz) processor. Nice try though.
... because they perceive M$ OS to be clunky, junky, and unsafe at any megahertz!
Hi,
My name's Tony. I work at a law firm. My PC used to hiccup at me all the time, blue screens here, illegal operations there. I didn't know what to do. All I know is the macros for my legal documents used to take forever. I'd start a macro then answer the phone, and it wouldn't be done until nearly after I said "Hello, this is MacIntyre and Finch, how can I help you?" How annoying???
That's when I realized I needed to address more than 4 gigs of memory. I mean really, when you're sending out C&D letters to 180 million people you need real power!
Then I got this new 64 bit Apple machine and it's like "WOW", man do those macros fly!!!
Hi! My name's Tony and I work for the RIAA...
-dameron
1. Alpha 21264C at 1250MHz
... you don't work for Compaq/hp do you?
2. Itanium2 at 1000MHz
3. POWER4 at 1300MHz
4. SPARC64 V at 1350MHz
5. POWER4 at 1100MHz
6. Alpha 21264C at 1224MHz
7. Alpha 21264C at 1000MHz
8. Pentium 4 at 2.8 GHz
9. Pentium 4 at 2.66 GHz
10. Pentium 4 at 2.53 GHz
IBM's Power4 chips are currently faster than Intel x86 chips...
You seem to have deliberately ignored the superiority of the Alpha chip in your assessment. Hmm that sounds familiar
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these?
:(
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Most people think about Nintendos. My 16 bit console is better than my 8 bit console. I bet my 64 bit Linux box would be f0kk1ng gr00vy!
There should be a moratorium on the use of the apostrophe.
Max V.
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The same reason Jehovah's Witnesses maintain that Christ came back when they preducted (circa 1917), albet invisibly and silently so that no one knew but them: people don't like to change their mental picture of the future they predicted. Linux zealots preducted Linux would make it to the desktop. BSD, somehow, did it instead. They're upset that they put their faith in the, well, wrong religion.
"If I had a some bucks and gumption to start a business, that's exactly what I would do. A z800, the fattest pipes I could buy, and some disk. "
I must be tired, I thought you said "dicks" and not "disk". Given the lack of context, that made for an amusing sentence. Heh.
"Derp de derp."
They dont make geeks like they used to...
Me and my wife recently made a new geek... and I guarantee you we did it the old fashioned way