Apple To Use PowerPC until 2008 on low end systems

[Kintaro]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/12492493.htm

[worker201]

1 vote for bin - you have to register with Mercury to read the article.

[Laukev7]

1 vote for bin - you have to register with Mercury to read the article.

http://www.bugmenot.com/

[WMD]

If you read the article, it says that they just secured orders through 2008.  It doesn't mean they'll keep making machines that way...they could be for contracts and warranty replacements.

[Kintaro]

Possibly, however I think certain die hard Apple fans would prefer to pay extra for a PowerPC system.

[worker201]

Well, call me crazy, but I'd rather have a G4 than a Celeron any day of the week and twice on Tuesdays.

Intel has made a business of scamming customers with high processor rates and low bus rates, and crippled processors that use math emulation.  I don't want such shit on my Mac.

[Lead Head]

i am running on a 2GHz Hypertransport link. Even the AMD seprons destry the celerons in the benchmarks

[WMD]

Intel has made a business of scamming customers with high processor rates and low bus rates,

Apple/Freescale does that too - anything G4 these days.