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Apple Switched Chips Too Soon?
Ctrl+Alt+De1337 writes "C|Net is reporting that IBM has announced a method of altering silicon that will allow its next generation of Power chips to run at speeds between 4 and 5 gigahertz, and consume less power as well. From the article: 'Instead of just making transistors smaller, IBM came up with a process to alter how silicon behaves by placing a layer of insulator underneath a layer of silicon less than 500 atoms thick ... The higher speed of the Power6 will be achieved with existing chip manufacturing technology that etches transistors only 65 nanometers wide, several hundred times smaller than a human blood cell.' These won't be out until 2007, but it still raises the question: did Apple jump the gun by switching to Intel?"
Doesn't mean Apple can't rethink and switch back
Don't you mean "think different"?
Long signatures suck.
WWDC 2010...
Jobs on stage: "Oh, one more thing, (dramatic pause) the Mac OS has been living a dual life... again.... remember a few years ago when we secretly had the Mac OS under development for the Intel platform!? Guess what, we still kept the PowerPC binaries going and this year we're going offer you both Intel AND PowerPC chips!
and We call it.... iHAL".
Yes, just like "hacking" and all the other words people have taken over to mean something different.
For all intensive purposes, I could care less.
That's one I pacifically can't stand.
Supposably it's said quite a lot.
Once upon a time it did. But since then we've had the computer revolution, the industrial revolution, and oh heck, the American revolution...
Geez, you grammar nazis are really prophetic.
Grammer nazi says, "think differently".
Irregardless of the forgoing, shouldn't you be busy tapping someone's line?
Irregardless of the intent, you have hurt my self of steam with such statements.
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Spelling Nazi says "Grammar".
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
I'm still waiting for the eight pound, 10-inch screen iPod that Steve Jobs announced during his podcast demo at MacWorld last month. :P
Bannkontrolleur National Sozialist sagt Grammatik
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
You mispelled, Nintendo Armagedden.
Punctuation Nazi says, "Grammar."
You misspeled Armageddon.
-- I'm old enough to have lived through six different meanings of the word "hacker."
Das echte Bannkontrollier sagt: "Bannkontrolleur" sieht Französisch aus.
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
"Think previous"
An AC with an informative post? Looks like this warm winter we've been having is about to come to an end.
I don't get it -- what's a 134 instruction set?