Macs

[Derek Broughton]

Chris Rees wrote:

> 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.
 
> 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.

Huh?  PowerPC chips always used less power than Intel chips.  They maybe 
didn't have strong power _management_ because they never needed it to go 
head to head with an Intel.  When Macs were PowerPC, comparable laptops were 
often getting twice the battery time compared to Intels.  It was the only 
thing that ever even made me consider them.
-- 
derek