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Inside the PowerPC 970

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the take-a-closer-look dept.

daveschroeder writes "Jon "Hannibal" Stokes has posted a long-awaited, very detailed analysis of the IBM PowerPC 970 at Ars Technica. Notable quote: 'The 970 was made for Apple'."

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  1. In the market for a 64-bit workstation? by idiotnot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fast forward a few months....hmm...a few options:

    Sun: Nice hardware, very expensive, CDE.
    AMD: Commodity hardware, cheap, WinXP.
    HP: Intel hardware, very expensive, CDE or WinXP.
    I think I know what I'd buy.

    Of course, the Athlon64/Opteron would get quite a bit of consideration due to my hobbies.

    But I think it'd end up being the Mac.