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Yes they did. You had fast PowerPC chips at the time, but they couldn't compete at power efficiency, which was important for consumer hardware, especially porta
by djxfade 3y ago
Yes they did. You had fast PowerPC chips at the time, but they couldn't compete at power efficiency, which was important for consumer hardware, especially portable devices.
- manuelabeledo 3y agoI'm confused. Of course Intel chips were better for laptops, that's exactly what I said.
- iainmerrick 3y agoThat’s why I said “including power usage and price” above. IBM just weren’t able and/or willing to match Intel’s chips for Apple’s purposes. (As I recall, but maybe I misremember, Apple claimed a big performance advantage for their high-end G5 Macs but in the real world it was a bit dubious.)