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PowerPC 970 Running at 2.5 GHz
kuwan writes "IBM has just released a press release that indicates they have the new PowerPC 970 running at 1.8 to 2.5 GHz making it 'the fastest PowerPC so far.' IBM's original estimates were to have the chip running at 1.4 to 1.8 GHz at introduction, so this is very good news for those of us hoping Apple will use this as their next-generation chip."
lets hope this lives up to apples known standards. and is a good chip.. FP
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
This is IBM doing this.
Not Apple.
And certainly not those losers over at Motorola!
Bicches, Big Blue'll show ya how it's done!
Dear Apple
I am a homosexual. I have bought an Apple because of its reputation as the "gay" computer. Since buying one of those lampshade macs i have met loads of gay friends and I would like to know about your latest 2.5 ghz processor so I can jerk off to gay pr0n faster than my wintel counterparts.
Thank you in advance.
Father "pudge" O'johnny. III
You FUCKED UP like a BIG FAT NIGGER.
As if Apple has a clue. They lose market share each day and spend zillions creating "new" versions of old servers, ie: The Power Mac G4 (Mirrored Doors). Yes, a real slow machine by ANY standards. While the real world is pushing into the world of 3.6 G machines, Apple still drags behind. Woot, OS X, BFD! And the COST!!! Shit, for the price of a Power Mac, I could get 3 cheesy machines that are not only faster, but have more get up and go! You Photoshop fools need to remember, Photoshop was designed for Apple, and THEN ported to the PC, do not bring up those lame benchmarks!
They're over and done with, and have been, for nearly half a decade now.
After lingering problems with OS 9, delayed completion of OS X, and most importantly the stagnation of processor development for PowerPC computers, most Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) for major companies have all but written off Apple Computers.
Sure, you can accuse this of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but the bottom line is essentially that Apple has failed to compete on a purely technological basis. Their machinery does look very nice, and they really cleaned up the X interface for their Quartz window manager experience built-in to OS X, but that doesn't mean it can execute Photoshop filters any faster. Some of the more serious graphic artists, therefore, have begun to phase out their use of the PowerPC platform and have already high-tailed it over to the Pentium side of the fence with new 3GHz Dell computers.
This chip is great, and I'm not arguing that. Go read the specs at ArsTechnica if you want, I've already got them nearly memorized. But this and no chip will ever save Apple from their rut.
No, they will always stay in business because they have a niche with people who would turn down a free Monet painting because it doesn't match their sofa.
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Costs 2x with 1/2 the performance?