Apple PowerMac G5 Commercial - Blown Away

Apple PowerMac G5 Commercial - Blown Away
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[Justinba1010]

@macnerd93 Amen! Lol, but I agree. The reason is Apple didn't want to pay 11.5 mil to buy the P.A. license, Intel was doing it for free. So they switched, P.A. Semiconductors had an underclocked and smaller, and it beat the Core 2 series in almost everything but lost energy by about ~1.7w. That's right everything but 2w. Anyway it was possible but Apple were acting as cheap bastards and blamed it on IBM.

[macnerd93]

@Justinba1010 as have I, been a mac user since 1998 with the 233Mhz iMAC g3 and PowerPC use to be faster by miles heck I own 9 macs four of which are PowerPC and they still do tasks amazingly well, but intel passed them by i'd say in about late 2004 and 2005. Main reason for the switch was Apple were unable to put the PowerPC 970 in a PowerBook due to cooling etc. I'm even intending to sell one of my 3 Mac minis and replace it with a 2.5Ghz Quad G5

[Justinba1010]

@macnerd93 Well they switched because battery life would be a mere 1.5 hours. So they switched to Intel the same month P.A. Semiconductor had a solution to actually use less energy then a Core 2 Duo. It was because they needed to push it out quick. The reason new Mac Pros are faster are because they have more RAM and quicker RAM and they have much better drives, way better drives. That's why, nothing to do with the processors. Trust me been working with these for a third of my life.

[macnerd93]

@beatrydermusic they work totally different to each other. PowerPC is RISC and intel is X86 Powerpc was the best once, but intel shot passed in around 2004/05 Apple saw this and thats why they switched because they couldn't see a future with Powerpc I own a lot of macs 4 of which are powerPC system they do an excellent job, but you can't compare a G5 not even a Quad to a brand new Mac Pro it just wouldn't be fair

[macnerd93]

@funnybee2 they don't even have a MacBook Pro with a 6.6Ghz processor, its a laptop

[macnerd93]

@funnybee2 they don't even make the G5 anymore, you can get G5 systems mega cheap on ebay these days

[macnerd93]

@maccollectorZ na your confusing the term. The terminology of PC dates back to IBM and when Microsoft first licensed DOS to them, although MS kept the rights to the software and as such sold it to other manufactures as well. That is where the term IBM PC Compatible came from or more specifically PC as thats what IBM named their units. Apple computers at the time never ran DOS or windows and as such where branded differently, its the easiest way to differentiate between the two.

[ThisIsWonga1]

@maccollectorZ hardy ha-ha-ha. :l

[Mastermind12358]

@maccollectorZ

god you serous ? youre smart.

i know that pc stands for personal computer. but when 99,9% of people on this planet say "pc" they mean a windows computer.

[maccollectorZ]

@Mastermind12358 It's still a PC too. I understand that most people misuse the term, PC. It's still one though.