Macs
Chan Chung Hang Christopher
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Mon Sep 14 13:22:10 BST 2009
> That's really interesting, and NOW it's curious, because the stated
> reason Apple moved to Intel was because of this....
>
> I'd guess it's because of the Cell architecture rather than the
> traditional multiple cores.
>
>
The reason why Apple moved to Intel was 1) heat issues - not possible to
continue building iMacs with furnaces and 2) IBM was not delivering on
promises to make processors that could perform. IBM and whoever else had
a much bigger fish to fry: millions of Wiis, Playstations and X-Boxes.
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