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Slimebeast on 21 June 2012
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superchunk said:
Slimebeast said:
superchunk said:
Slimebeast said:

lol I know that, dummy.

Confusion. I'll try something else. Can you please clarify what you meant by this line and we'll take it from there:

"Primarily, all rumors now show PowerPC CPUs vs ARM based CPUs"


haha sorry.

This 56 page leak says all the new processors would be ARM based CPUs. However, all rumors over the last ... nearly year.. have all focused on PowerPC CPUs. That really is the only big difference between what we have currently rumored and what this presentation details.

Wait a minute. I am almost certain that for CPU it says "ARM/X86" in the document right on the main spec page.

You're right it does. But that just means they weren't sure on which chip architecture to use. I'm just saying that they moved to x86 PowerPC and there is no rumor with ARM. I think I confused myself and only really saw the ARM part at first. Either way non-issue.

For CPU it says ARM/X86.

Then under Backwards compatibility it says PPC for Power-PC.

As far as I know X86 is en entirely different architecture from Power-PC and the only big ones who make X86 CPUs are Intel and AMD.

Anyway, you are probably right. My fanboyism towards AMD just hopes AMD gets to make the CPU. Even if the doc suggested x86 (AMD/Intel) then that has probably changed. You have kept good track of the rumors.