Comments on: Apple’s NeXT Step: Mac OS X86™ http://blog.ryanparman.com/2005/06/10/apples-next-step-mac-os-x86/ Too much straw, not enough camel Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:33:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jon http://blog.ryanparman.com/2005/06/10/apples-next-step-mac-os-x86/comment-page-1/#comment-642 Jon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog.skyzyx.net/archives/2005/06/10/apples-next-step-mac-os-x86/#comment-642 Please excuse me while I rant but please check out the link to anantech's showdown. This explains so much why Jobs finally "Switched" I think that x86 is a superior architecture. Here are some real tests for you to get acquanted with. PowerPC is not all it's cracked up to be for the past decade. This article gives a clear understanding of CPU designs and why Intel and AMD reign supreme. It also explains why Mac has failed miserably every time it tries to enter the server market with OS X server. <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436" rel="nofollow">http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436</a> In order to get even remotely close to the GHz ratings of Intel and AMD, IBM had to basically overclock the G5. The only people using watercooling in the x86 world are overclockers. <em>Edited for retarded assumptions about me. — Ryan</em> Please excuse me while I rant but please check out the link to anantech’s showdown. This explains so much why Jobs finally “Switched”

I think that x86 is a superior architecture. Here are some real tests for you to get acquanted with. PowerPC is not all it’s cracked up to be for the past decade. This article gives a clear understanding of CPU designs and why Intel and AMD reign supreme. It also explains why Mac has failed miserably every time it tries to enter the server market with OS X server.

http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436

In order to get even remotely close to the GHz ratings of Intel and AMD, IBM had to basically overclock the G5. The only people using watercooling in the x86 world are overclockers.

Edited for retarded assumptions about me. — Ryan

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