[Info-vax] Steve Jobes [was: Apple says ...]

[Michael Kraemer]

Paul Sture schrieb:
> In article <j6qvgq$7da$1 at solani.org>,
>  Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>JF Mezei schrieb:
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>>>In fact, LION (the latest OS release) was designed to ignore the
>>>established "fan base" (dropping support for older applications and UI
>>>features that were well estabished) in favour of glitz that attracts an
>>>even greater market potential.
>>
>>Which means nothing else than that they are rapidly
>>following the M$ way.
>>Dropping PPC (unnecessarily) in favor of intel was the first step
>>to join the evil empire.
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> Weren't there heat and power consumption problems for laptops using PPC?

Not unsurmountable ones. If he had paid for it,
he could have had a laptop PPC, just like IBM
created the G5 (from Power4), or the Xbox CPU
for M$.
Another company, PA Semi, had created PWRficient
exactly for this purpose (the name of
Semi's founder, D.Dobberpuhl, should ring a bell
with Alpha worshippers).
In the end, Apple even bought this company,
but not for their PPC, but for ARM design.
So the alleged reason for the infamous "switch"
rather seems to be a lame excuse for merging the Mac
with Wintel.