Good diasnosys, wrong conclusion

Good diasnosys, wrong conclusion

Posted Oct 2, 2007 15:58 UTC (Tue) by foom (subscriber, #14868)
In reply to: Good diasnosys, wrong conclusion by khim
Parent article: Memory part 2: CPU caches

...Apple didn't throw away the G5 because it didn't work. It perfectly well.

They threw it away because of power consumption. They needed a new processor to put in a
laptop, and neither IBM nor Motorolla were particularly interested in providing one competitive in
power and performance to Intel's.

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