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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.
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.
Grammer nazi says, "think differently".
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 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."