I studied wildlife biology at UC Berkeley, and even had to do some work with squirrels. This study is interesting, but I'm very glad to have not been responsible for tracking those squirrels and studying their caches of nuts.
Apple just needs to stay ahead of their PC competition. Now that they've pulled ahead in the OS department, they just need to find a chip that keeps them on par with the PCs in order to keep their lead. As in any match race, they only need to watch what their opponent, the PC does. If the windows world made a switch to this new technology, Apple would have to follow suit -- but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
If you want to see just how little having the fastest processor buys you, just take a look at the Alpha. Apple not being able to meaningfully update its laptop for a couple of years was, on the other hand, a real threat.
FWIW, the Apple sales rep that I spoke with about this said that the G5 xserves will have to wait until the G5 cpu's are produced in the lower micron proces (currently 0.13mu, I think).
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Dyslexically read that John Perry Barlow was to host symposium and thought it Slashdot's worst April Fool's joke ever.
I studied wildlife biology at UC Berkeley, and even had to do some work with squirrels. This study is interesting, but I'm very glad to have not been responsible for tracking those squirrels and studying their caches of nuts.
And it might have.
The artillery wasn't even the worst of it. The malware actually sent all searches to Yahoo.
Come on... who doesn't like to insult Facebook fans? I fail to see the problem here.
Forget AMD vs Intel, the real question is who the hell needs 10 way conference calling?
Apple just needs to stay ahead of their PC competition. Now that they've pulled ahead in the OS department, they just need to find a chip that keeps them on par with the PCs in order to keep their lead. As in any match race, they only need to watch what their opponent, the PC does. If the windows world made a switch to this new technology, Apple would have to follow suit -- but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
If you want to see just how little having the fastest processor buys you, just take a look at the Alpha. Apple not being able to meaningfully update its laptop for a couple of years was, on the other hand, a real threat.
FWIW, the Apple sales rep that I spoke with about this said that the G5 xserves will have to wait until the G5 cpu's are produced in the lower micron proces (currently 0.13mu, I think).