rocketpig on 27 May 2008
| Final-Fan said: Actually, I had thought that one of the biggest reasons Apple switched to Intel was that PowerPCs made for poor laptop CPUs (ran hot or something), NOT performance considerations. But I am certainly no expert on this. |
Yeah, that's pretty much it. IBM didn't want to spend the money to make the G5 a suitable portable chip and neither did Apple.
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