PowerPC G3 from Intel

Steve Jobs announces G3-processors from Motorola and INTEL at te Macworld Expo in January 1999. Woah! He did get that one wrong. IBM probably wasn't pleased at all :)

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[henriok]

So you are one of those that really think that one MHz = MHz no matter what? How come then a Westmere core at 2.6 GHz easily beats a Pentium 4 core at 4 GHz? The same way a PowerPC core beat the Pentium III back in the days, is the answer: A radically more efficient execution pipe.

[darijoe]

Steve said "Motorola and Intel." He meant to say "Motorola and IBM." Apple hated Intel back then.

[JKBenchmarks]

Vista can run on a pentium 2,

but do you want to? ;)

[ThunderwingMatrix]

Freuidan slip, perhaps? Maybe Jobs was anticipating when Apple might have to jump ship from PPC to Intel, like they finally did in 2006.

[darijoe]

@ehurtley Hmm that last sentence of mine was more of a joke than a statement. :) I have never worked for Apple and I concede they have not acknowledged any hatred, just a fierce competition against each other.

[ehurtley]

@darijoe Well, Apple obviously didn't *HATE* Intel, since Steve acknowledged when he announced the official Intel transition that they had been compiling and running OS X on Intel processors since day 1. (After all, OS X was descended from NeXTstep, which ran on Intel processors just fine. The earliest developer betas of OS X (then called by the codename 'Rhapsody') even ran on Intel.) It is claimed that until OS X came out, Jobs ran NeXTstep on a ThinkPad in his office at Apple.

[gerutgerut]

400MHz.. wow

[theflatearthsociety]

hahaha HUUUGE fail.

[SlightyDisturbedNBK]

@MattySP34Ks This was over ten years ago.

[Bluedino549]

@nicholsml You maybe right but you should never think of the Frequency. A 300 MHz SPARC CPU kicks an 800MHz Pentium 3 in the ass. I don't really know how about the PowerPC...

[nicholsml]

in 1998 Intel had 450 Mhz CPU's, by 1999 they had upwards of 733Mhz CPU's and 1Ghz by early 2000. IBM, Motorola weren't the most powerful at the time. Steve Jobs is constantly telling lies.

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It's amazing how many people you can win to your side with commercials.

[myid9876543]

@JKBenchmarks 10.5 on a 450MHz G4, you can but would you want to? (rage 128, no graphics acceleration on that pretty gui either. g4 cube, runs leopard like a champ un-upgraded)