Lower power consumption

Lower power consumption

Posted Jun 9, 2005 13:32 UTC (Thu) by jcm (subscriber, #18262)
In reply to: Lower power consumption by clump
Parent article: Yellow Dog Linux sticks with PowerPC

I've decided I will eventually get a Mac Mini to replace my desktop, but only because it is a PowerPC system. I have no interest in buying a cheap Apple x86 box when there are a million other ones on the market.

If anything, this will benefit Linux users because they'll be less tempted to run OS X on Apple kit as a consequence of this announcement. Overall, I expect it will increase sales and be beneficial to the company - but they'll lose a few percent of customers who used to be die hard fans.

That said, deep down, I somehow want this to fail and for Steve to exit stage left again - it won't happen, but it's just so hard to understand how he can get away with such a radical change yet again.

Jon.

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