Comments on: more spending? http://www.shakykaiser.com/blog/archives/2005/04/27/more-spending/ Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:05:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Jay http://www.shakykaiser.com/blog/archives/2005/04/27/more-spending/#comment-8593 Jay Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:02:00 +0000 http://www.shakykaiser.com/blog/archives/2005/04/27/more-spending/#comment-8593 I never read so much whining as I did on appleinsider. I mean, the new 2.7Ghz is 8% "faster", comes with 250GB instead of 180 and has a new 16x dual layer drive. An incremental update and, if you bought a 2.5 with 250GB and 16x drive (assuming it was available) it would've been about $200 more. I think Apple could release a 3.0Ghz tomorrow if they wanted to. But it would be liquid cooled and I suspect they're waiting for a CPU that can be air cooled without high-speed/high-noise fans. They're all about design and not the bleeding edge. Oh...love the comment about moving to AMD. Uh, yeah. Even if IBM would sell AMD a license to build PPC they'd need to tool for it. Not a small investment for what amounts to less than 10% of the CPU market. Not sure that the ROI would be sufficient. And moving to x86 means re-writing all of Mac OS X owing to endian issues. Boneheads. :-) I never read so much whining as I did on appleinsider. I mean, the new 2.7Ghz is 8% “faster”, comes with 250GB instead of 180 and has a new 16x dual layer drive. An incremental update and, if you bought a 2.5 with 250GB and 16x drive (assuming it was available) it would’ve been about $200 more.

I think Apple could release a 3.0Ghz tomorrow if they wanted to. But it would be liquid cooled and I suspect they’re waiting for a CPU that can be air cooled without high-speed/high-noise fans. They’re all about design and not the bleeding edge.

Oh…love the comment about moving to AMD. Uh, yeah. Even if IBM would sell AMD a license to build PPC they’d need to tool for it. Not a small investment for what amounts to less than 10% of the CPU market. Not sure that the ROI would be sufficient. And moving to x86 means re-writing all of Mac OS X owing to endian issues. Boneheads. :-)

]]> By: hkmacs http://www.shakykaiser.com/blog/archives/2005/04/27/more-spending/#comment-8590 hkmacs Wed, 27 Apr 2005 05:54:01 +0000 http://www.shakykaiser.com/blog/archives/2005/04/27/more-spending/#comment-8590 At the launch of the G5, they promised 3GHz within a year. Not there yet, though. At the launch of the G5, they promised 3GHz within a year. Not there yet, though.

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