Status of 6.0 for production systems

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Nov 17, 2005, at 6:01 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

>
>> In real world use my 256MB G4-400 MacOS X 10.4.3 Powerbook is faster
>> than my 512MB 2GHz WinXP Pro box at work.
>
> But - Chad said that the G4 is a no-go?  That the G5 was an absolute
> requirement
> for laptop use?  Yet your saying that a G4 for a laptop is perfectly
> acceptable?
> Then why again ais Apple moving to Intel chips to get laptops?  :-)

Current G4 chips work fine in laptops and allow people to get their  
work done.  Some people need more.

But G4s are not competitive with the Intel competition and into the  
future would be even less competitive.

Long term Apple needed a new solution. They chose what they feel (and  
probably is) the best solution.

Personally I would rather have had AMD but the current AMD laptop  
solution (and laptops were Apple's biggest concerns IMHO) is not as  
strong and Intel is seen as a stronger partner.  It is all irrelevant  
anyway as AMD and Intel are the same architecture anyway and so Apple  
could easily move to AMD or to a mix without SW issues.

Chad

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