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What proceesor do you prefer?
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It's a little hard to throw all of the PPC chips in the one boat isn't it? They're all very different to each other so I don't really think it's a good comparison to be making.
Out of all of the PowerPC processors, the 604e was my favourite but it was the strongest for its time. Could its design have been extended, there probably wouldn't have been a switch. The G3 was the beginning of the end. Was an equal speed backside cache worth it when it wasn't used at full speed until many years later?
The Intel processors give the machines new life and maybe, they'll be tossed aside in 11 or 12 years from now, too. It's a great deal now and finally crushes the performance gap. When the PPC 601 arrived, there was no reason for Intel processors because they were slower and had various technical problems. The situation has definitely been reversed.
The Intel processors give the machines new life and maybe, they'll be tossed aside in 11 or 12 years from now, too. It's a great deal now and finally crushes the performance gap. When the PPC 601 arrived, there was no reason for Intel processors because they were slower and had various technical problems. The situation has definitely been reversed.
PowerPC, just to be rebellious 
Nah, I'd like Intel's more if.... oh... I don't know... I could afford one?
PPC is vintage.
Nah, I'd like Intel's more if.... oh... I don't know... I could afford one?
PPC is vintage.
I liked being on the RISC architecture of the PowerPC's. While the Intel processors may be better for portables, I wished the desktop line stayed with PowerPC's.
simon-says said:
That could cause A LOT of problems. Some apps written for intel, others for PPC etc, it just wouldn't make sense later on.
I prefer the processor that enables me to get my work done. For all I care, it could be powered by pixies.
I voted PowerPC purely due to application support. Ask me again in 6 months and I'll probably say Intel.
As short lived as the G5 may have been, I still love it. It has been one of the best mac processors I have ever used. It broke free of the "G4 Memory Bottleneck", provided us with a huge leap in speed, and kept our platform going for a few years. I always felt that the G4 was lagging in performance, and even on my 12" 1.5ghz PowerBook, I feel like it is still not as fast as it should be. The new Intel processors are exciting, however, I really like what the G5 did for Apple. They are still very powerful machines, and they have a lot of life left in them.
I chose Intel because it is the future. IBM was simply not delivering with the G3, G4, and G5 series of processors. Intel is, and they will deliver to Apple what they are looking for.
Honestly, I believe this poll would be more useful if it just included broad types/brands, i.e. AMD, Intel, PowerPC - however...
...I would choose Intel either way, as it is taking its competition (i.e. AMD) seriously and is responding to it with better chips, rather than tons and tons of lawsuits...
...Intel will be surpassing AMD in every processor category except 64-bit over the next year. It's been far superior in terms of mobile technology for awhile, but its new desktop chips are going to be here in about a month...!!!
Can't wait.
...I would choose Intel either way, as it is taking its competition (i.e. AMD) seriously and is responding to it with better chips, rather than tons and tons of lawsuits...
...Intel will be surpassing AMD in every processor category except 64-bit over the next year. It's been far superior in terms of mobile technology for awhile, but its new desktop chips are going to be here in about a month...!!!
Can't wait.
For OS X I currently prefer the G5 because all the software actually works natively. Ask me again in a year and I bet you get a different answer.
Which processor do I prefer in general currently it would be the Intel Xeon with EM64T extensions. Once again ask me in a year and the answer will be completely different, but it will still be Intel.
For the poll I picked PPC.
Which processor do I prefer in general currently it would be the Intel Xeon with EM64T extensions. Once again ask me in a year and the answer will be completely different, but it will still be Intel.
For the poll I picked PPC.
Zwhaler said:
Apple have been releasing universal binaries for both PPC and Intel for months now. It is the 3rd party developers that are holding the Intels back.
Yeah, it's mainly the large applications that people are concerned about (Photoshop) as the smaller applications generally run without a hitch. I run Word and MSN Messenger at the same time, which are both PowerPC apps, and I don't even notice. In fact, Word seems much faster on my Intel Mini then it was on my PowerPC Mini.risc said:
I still like the PowerPc processor, it hasn't done me any harm. Like it has been said a 100 times, give it a few months and my response will slowly change to Intel. I can't complain about PPC, sure IBM didn't deliver a 3 ghz PowerMac or PowerBook G5's last tuesday. They are still fast machines, and Intel is still in its early stages of transition. Viva la PPC!
