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Re: Apple To Use PowerPC until 2008 on low end systems
« Reply #1 on: 30 August 2005, 20:31 »
1 vote for bin - you have to register with Mercury to read the article.

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Re: Apple To Use PowerPC until 2008 on low end systems
« Reply #2 on: 30 August 2005, 21:01 »
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Re: Apple To Use PowerPC until 2008 on low end systems
« Reply #3 on: 30 August 2005, 21:28 »
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.
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Re: Apple To Use PowerPC until 2008 on low end systems
« Reply #4 on: 1 September 2005, 19:40 »
Possibly, however I think certain die hard Apple fans would prefer to pay extra for a PowerPC system.

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Re: Apple To Use PowerPC until 2008 on low end systems
« Reply #5 on: 1 September 2005, 21:49 »
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.

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Re: Apple To Use PowerPC until 2008 on low end systems
« Reply #6 on: 2 September 2005, 00:29 »
i am running on a 2GHz Hypertransport link. Even the AMD seprons destry the celerons in the benchmarks
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Re: Apple To Use PowerPC until 2008 on low end systems
« Reply #7 on: 2 September 2005, 01:03 »
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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.
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