What The Hell Is This All About People ?

hey people... it is damn weird.. what the hell is Apple doing with compaq and HP ???

look at this... and what is doing Hp with this ipods ????

:rolleyes:

i wanna see the Hp 49g + you know the graphing calculator for engineering as beautyful as the ipoddddddddd :naughty:

Why is this such a shock? They use G5 CPU's developed by IBM and AMD! (Didnt you wonder how Apple and AMD were able to do the 32bit/ 64bit thing at the exact same time? Different CPU structures, very similar 64bit designs...)

Everyone buys from everyone in the computer industry. No big deal.

#210783

true... it is true...

#210785

the hp ipod was posted like a week ago :rolleyes:

#210985

Compaque just bought out the part of HP from Europe two years ago.

So if HP gets the iPod so will Compaq.

#211004

OH God!!!

:rolleyes:

HP bought Compaq few yrs ago. There`s no more Compaq, just HP.

#211029

Actualy the G5 is a rebranded IBM PowerPC 970 CPU.

It's based on IBM's Power 4 CPU core.

AMD was never involded in it's development or production.

IBM developed the PowerPC 970 back in 2001-2002 and was initialy a 1.4 Ghz CPU, it's max speed is 1.8 Ghz.

The current G5 CPU is the newer PowerPC 970FX/GX.

G4 CPU's are based on the PowerPC 750 series that was developed in conjunction with Motorola.

G3 CPU's are from the PowerPC 740 series and we all know the old 603e and 604e CPU's which were the original PowerPC chip.

FYI... IBM owns the PowerPC name and logo, not Apple or Motorola.

History lesson over.

#211050

Originally posted by Unbeliever@Sep 2 2004, 05:13 PM
OH God!!!

HP bought Compaq few yrs ago. There`s no more Compaq, just HP.

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HP bought Compaq. My dads friend works for them.

#211112

Isnt that what he just said?

#211113

Originally posted by rjohnstone@Sep 2 2004, 12:51 PM
Actualy the G5 is a rebranded IBM PowerPC 970 CPU.
It's based on IBM's Power 4 CPU core.
AMD was never involded in it's development or production.
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AMD helped to develop HyperTransport (http://www.hypertransport.org/), which is the bus technology in the G5/Power4. While obviously not the same as designing the chip, hypertransport is a very important part, which AMD pioneered.

#211121

Originally posted by rjohnstone@Sep 2 2004, 04:51 PM
Actualy the G5 is a rebranded IBM PowerPC 970 CPU.

It's based on IBM's Power 4 CPU core.

AMD was never involded in it's development or production.

IBM developed the PowerPC 970 back in 2001-2002 and was initialy a 1.4 Ghz CPU, it's max speed is 1.8 Ghz.

The current G5 CPU is the newer PowerPC 970FX/GX.

G4 CPU's are based on the PowerPC 750 series that was developed in conjunction with Motorola.

G3 CPU's are from the PowerPC 740 series and we all know the old 603e and 604e CPU's which were the original PowerPC chip.

FYI... IBM owns the PowerPC name and logo, not Apple or Motorola.

History lesson over.

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I misspoke (posted): The G5 and Athlon XP use standards developed by the UMC, of which both AMD and IBM were the major players. I re-read my original post and quickly saw my mistake, sorry about that.

#211131

@DZ In no way was I trying to come off as a know-it-all.

If I came across that way in my post, please forgive me.

I have this overwhelming urge to correct people even if it's over the smallest detail.

I'm trying to not do that as much. This happens to be a subject that I have had many heated discussions over in the recent past so it's still fresh in my head.

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