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More on the PowerPC 970
functor writes "Ars Technica's Jon Stokes has a treatise up covering the microarchitecture of the high-performance 64-bit PowerPC 970 microprocessor, due to be released by the end of the year, that goes over in detail how this chip is put together, and how we can expect it to perform. This is the follow-up to Stokes' article detailing the PPC 970's design philosophy. 'It appears to hold quite a bit of promise in bolstering Apple's currently almost obsolescent product line, and it appears to have been designed explictly to fulfil Apple's requirements. To say the least, the second half of this year looks to be pretty interesting as Apple's product line promises to become competitive performance-wise with IA-32 and x86-64-based PCs again.''
Compete with your Windows box? Compete at what?
The fact that you ask that question shows your ignorance.
I personally can't wait .. this will require Mac zealots to up the ante on the rhetoric.
If you've been saying a dual G4 currently beats anything Intel/AMD hands down, what do you say when PPC970 arrives?
"My PPC970 Mac is fully sentient. He's talking about running for president in 2008."
.sig Karma out the wazoo, better to spend points elsewhere if this is above 2 or below 0