Macs

[Chris Rees]

2009/9/12 Odd <iodine at runbox.no>:
> Harold Sawyer wrote:
>> Apple has recently (time flies as we get older) changed to the Intel
>> Chips.  Before that, didn't they use Motorola?
>
> Yes, Motorola and IBM. PowerPC RISC chips. While the architecture
> was more elegant than x86, they had no chance against the Intel juggernaut.
> Apple did the only sensible thing, and switched.
>
> Curiously, PowerPC is in all the 3 major consoles:
> Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and the Wii.
>
> --
> Odd

Not really curiously; power management (which Intel is strong on)
isn't such a big deal in a games console. In a laptop etc it's
everything.

Chris
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