PowerPC is dead? I Don't think so!

I go to McDonald's, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, and the local bagel store regularly. I usually go there, get food, read the paper, and talk with friends (there's always someone I know there).

I tend to bring my PowerBook G4 (last generation 15" 1.67GHz). Internet, Homework (right...) and the like.

Everytime someone sees it, they expode. "omg is taht a macbookpro like zomg sexy!"

Then they see the front. They read "PowerBook G4". They instantly turn off their exploded-mood.

"Oh, thats the old one with the old, dead PowerPC procoessor..."

That's when it's my turn to explode. I give them the whole "Apple wasn't the only one that uses/used the PowerPC, and it's not dead" speech.

Apple wasn't the only one who used PowerPC, nor did they make it. IBM made the processor, and there are still loads of systems out there (and a lot of current generation video game consoles) that use this chip. Just because Apple switched over to Intel i386 processors does not mean that the processor is dead.

Video game consoles are the most notable systems that still use the PowerPC processor:

The Xbox 360 uses a 3.2GHz 3-core PowerPC processor.
The Nintendo GameCube used a 486MHz PowerPC 750CXe based processor ("Gekko")
The Nintendo Wii uses a PowerPC-based "Broadway" processor @ 729MHz.
The PlayStation 3 uses the IBM-designed Cell microprocessor as its CPU (based on PowerPC, and can be linked to it.)

Now you have IBM computers. IBM Power4, POWER5, and POWER6 processors all share the same family as PowerPC. IBM still makes, sells, and makes money from these processors. They are featured in servers, desktop systems, the works.

PowerPC has come a ways since Apple left the chip. They are pretty much just up to par as most Intel, AMD, VIA, etc i386 processors.

So...there. PowerPC is not dead.

#495697

You care for the opinion of others, when you drag around your laptop?

#495713

hey, phantom...who are you trying to convince?

#495725

Har har

Well, I'm just defending the PowerPC processor. That's it :slant:

#495727

macbook pro is better than powerbook lol . Mainly because of fastness and new added features. I like intel processors more though, have used macs with both, and prefer the intel macs

#495736

Nahh ppc is dead. sorry.

JK.

#495744

Dead... Alive... who gives a f**k !!

Why should it bother what others think as long as your work is getting done... I still lug around my iBook G4 with measly 1.33GHz chip.

#495753

Ah, sticking with the Powerbook, eh? So you still run OS8 as well, right?

(joking.) Does make me laugh as visually they're virtually identical and just as sexy.

But nah, although ppc will live on in certain places, but for the vast majority of consumer computers it's noooot gonna make a comeback.

#495836

It's gonna die...in the Mac world.

#495846

I'd rather use my daughters 12" PB with the enter key missing and almost dead battery than any new vista laptop for sale today.

#495847

Too late. The PowerPC chip is already dead in the Mac world. But the processor itself isn't dead.

I wasn't defending PowerPC Macs, sorry if I seemed to come on that way... I was defending the actual chip.

#495855