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Were IBM cpus really magnitudes more expensive than Intel/AMD cpus or were they just packaged in macs that had their own premium tacked on (in part because of
by 7speter 4y ago
Were IBM cpus really magnitudes more expensive than Intel/AMD cpus or were they just packaged in macs that had their own premium tacked on (in part because of the integration of cutting edge standards like usb and wifi when wintel vendors were years behind admittedly)? I was reminiscing the other day about the common early aughts meme of pc builders on forums always talking about how they could build a pc that was twice as powerful as a mac for nearly half the cost :), but if anything the price of the ibm power cpus were an abstract mystery because consumers only ever saw them in macs (until the xbox360 anyways)
- olliej 4y agoThat’s actually a really interesting question. As I think about it, all I can produce is “everyone knows they were more expensive”, which is questionable in terms of veracity :D I’ll see if I can find some actual figures
- olliej 4y agoI spent a bunch of time searching, and all I can find is parts on ebay today. Everything of the era is just people saying that everyone knows they cost more than intel parts. Nothing I found actually backs up the claim with real numbers, so?
- pram 4y ago> common early aughts meme of pc builders on forums always talking about how they could build a pc that was twice as powerful as a mac for nearly half the cost Why do you need to reminisce about this, these exact posts show up on every Apple hardware release to this day lol
- 7speter 4y agoThe apple silicon cpus are like twice as fast as the offerings from amd and intel and barring the mcm tech and speed of apple silicon, the otherwise comparable stuff from x86_64 costs almost the same as the apple stuff, except for the mac pro