Why did they make the switch? Easy one. Laptops. Powerbooks/iBooks make for more than half of the Mac revenue of Apple and there's currently no PPC chip available that can stand up to the Pentium M. Nor does anyone have one on his PPC roadmap.
Or do you think the Apple folks *like* to be hopelessly behind when it comes to portable computing power?
(And, yes, I too hate the fact that they switch. Now I'll be in the same boat with the Gigahertz bean counters...)
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Why did they make the switch? Easy one. Laptops. Powerbooks/iBooks make for more than half of the Mac revenue of Apple and there's currently no PPC chip available that can stand up to the Pentium M. Nor does anyone have one on his PPC roadmap.
...)
Or do you think the Apple folks *like* to be hopelessly behind when it comes to portable computing power?
(And, yes, I too hate the fact that they switch. Now I'll be in the same boat with the Gigahertz bean counters