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Posted by: DusK
So if it was so much better, wazzup wit dis?
In 2005 Apple announced they would no longer use PowerPC processors in their Apple Macintosh computers, favoring Intel produced processors instead, citing the performance limitations of the chip for future personal computer hardware specifically related to heat generation and energy usage, as well as the inability of IBM to move the 970 (PowerPC G5) processor to the 3 GHz range.
Must have been a lot of angry Macheads that day. Apple pooled a lot of effort into pushing that whole "Megahertz Myth" ideology, then switched because the 970s couldn't reach over 3GHz. I guess it just goes to show that it doesn't matter what architecture you use, it'll always get to a point where clock speed will make a difference.
The real issue that caused them to switch over was that IBM always took too long to develop the next iteration of the CPU. Oh, and they never quite solved their problems with heat. Their dedication towards silent computers have ever been a plague. Even liquid cooling ended up failing horribly when they experimented with it. Late G5's used it, and it often suffered from coolant leakage.
As you could expect, this was a pretty big deal. And Apple largely ignored it, of course.
Less and less focus is directed towards desktop computers nowadays at Apple. The focus is ever upon what's really making them money, and I expect I don't even have to get into that.