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Instead of all of the marketing smoke and mirrors...
Why don't they make the 64 bit PPC and supporting chipsets more inexpensive? The PPC is a great CPU. I have done a lot of embedded work with the 32 bit version of these chips and would like to see 64 bit PPC Windows machines available at a lower price than is possible now. If they could lower the price enough to make it more attactive I believe that the Linux community would start taking advantage of it (I know that *I* would) and with Java and .NET gaining ground in the market a PPC PC would not suffer the same lack of available software that faced the original 32 bit PPC PC. MS already has a XP kernel that they are going to use on the new PPC based X-Box, it should not take a lot of tweaking to make it into a consumer OS.
Posted by: balsover   Posted on: 06/08/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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If you can't Dazzle em' with peformance...  BitTwiddler | 06/08/04
exactly!! -nt  shaolin_z | 06/08/04
Dazzle . . .  dhemmin_z | 06/10/04
isn't it ridiculous that with OEM's selling multi-processor boxes  oldskool | 06/08/04
CPU speeds  SC-man | 06/08/04
Average User Doesn't Usually Buy  nikoli | 06/08/04
Bus Speeds  panic man | 06/08/04
you just compared apples to oranges using diameter  oldskool | 06/08/04
A-Ha  SC-man | 06/10/04
I beg to differ  shaolin_z | 06/08/04
also ... performance is more about design than implementation  oldskool | 06/08/04
Still a moot argument...  shaolin_z | 06/11/04
Instead of all of the marketing smoke and mirrors...  balsover | 06/08/04
Same Argument  panic man | 06/08/04
Software?  deadpan227 | 06/09/04
OK, granted, many  James Dean_z | 06/08/04
what about DSP based add in boards or video HW?  oldskool | 06/08/04
Security?  deadpan227 | 06/09/04
Said the man with the slow CPU...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/09/04
Promises  Harry Bardal | 06/09/04
Said the man . . .  dhemmin_z | 06/10/04
I thought Apple...  John Le'Brecage | 06/13/04
BURNING UP INSIDE  dogfoamatmouth | 06/09/04
I'm so tired of this (and not just for computers)  Laff | 06/10/04
So  ParadigmOdyssey | 06/10/04
IBM's advantage...  John Le'Brecage | 06/13/04
can see the viruses now  V Sanders | 06/13/04
the ecosystem  lawrephord2@... | 06/15/04

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