From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 15 06:56:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E34916A41F for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:56:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD49343D45 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:56:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1EbukD-000860-IG; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:56:41 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <84276C3B-6170-4108-9814-E03E7A4FA701@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:56:40 -0700 To: Ted Mittelstaedt X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:56:43 -0000 On Nov 14, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> A lot of people wondered how Steve Jobs could dare change over to >> Intel >> chips. >> In Steve Jobs keynote speech announcing the big move Intel chips was >> just about entirely stated as because of the 'performance per watt >> ratio' of Intel CPUs. Check out the picture of the key note speech >> and >> look at the bottom of the picture with Intel and IBM's PowerPC >> processor. >> http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/tradeshows/2005/WWDC/ >> perfperwatt.jpg >> > > This is a bunch of whitewashing as anyone in the tech industry knows. Wrong. WHat jobs said was exactly correct > Jobs changed over to Intel for two reasons. First, because Intel gave > him a better price on the CPU's. This is also a consideration. Price always is/ However, the main reason was that the performance they needed at the wattage they needed (for laptops) was not on the horizon for PPC. The G5 can compete against the Intel desktop offerings but there was not a laptop G5 coming any time soon [because of energy dissipation) and the G4 for laptops was not cutting it. > Second because doing this instantly > obsoletes the older power PC macs thus pushing all the Mac users to > fork over money for new software and hardware. Wrong. Conspiracy-Ted at it again. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad@shire.net