| lost soul in bliss said: "Ah, I misunderstood. In that case, all three consoles are PPC this generation."
Yes true just cell is the next step up on the power architecture processors platform.
Thats the info i got. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Architecture It seems all the high end server and all next gen consoles use a type of PPC based cpu. |
In my experience, Macs and high end servers *used* to use PPC based stuff. Apple got away from them because they simply did not perform as well, in the general, as Intel based Core 2 architecture CPUs do. And they're not as cheap.
The Cell isn't a step up, it's a step sideways. Toshiba owns the cell fab plant now, and while they have put the Cell in some of their laptops, they're really just going to relegate it to some of their TVs and leave the laptop work to faster Intel processors.
