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Well it wasnt really clockspeeds, it was performance per watt. The g5 was able to go into a (watercooled) powermac but IBM couldnt get it to run cool and effici

Well it wasnt really clockspeeds, it was performance per watt. The g5 was able to go into a (watercooled) powermac but IBM couldnt get it to run cool and efficient enough to go into apple laptops (or the mac mini iirc). By 2005 intel was, at the very least, probably prototyping multicore (I dont remember if IBM’s processor offering to apple was multicore at the time) chips that blew ibm (and previous intel offerings) out of the water performance and efficiency wise and apple announced the transition.

kergonath 4y ago
The last generation of PowerMacs had dual-core G5s. They still ran very hot and it did not change much in the end.
- mattl 4y ago
  Last generation had quad core with water cooling I think. They were really trying to get everything out of them.
  - windowsrookie 4y ago
    It was two Dual-Core 2.5GHZ CPUs. I have one sitting under my desk right now. ;) Pretty advanced for 2005. Four 64bit CPU cores, 16GB DDR2 RAM, and liquid cooled. It's still usable today 17 years later and it could work for 90% of what I do on the computer. It draws nearly 1000 watts under full load tho....
    - mattl 4y ago
      1000 watts, damn. So what can’t it do? I’m guessing modern websites struggle on it
      - windowsrookie 4y ago
        Yes, websites with heavy JavaScript really slow it down. The newest browser available for it is based on a very old version of Firefox. https://github.com/classilla/tenfourfox/ https://github.com/classilla/tenfourfox/ Youtube is extremely slow, and it can only play back 360p or lower video smoothly. There is no hardware h.264 acceleration. “New” Reddit is also very slow. But old Reddit loads fine. Hacker news is very fast, loads as quickly as a modern computer.