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Re:P.A. Semi PA6T PowerPC by GeekyBear on Monday June 06, 2022 @10:07AM (#31640681)
> Apple was sold on the promise of future Intel chips, mainly the Core 2 series, and nothing Intel had at that time...

Yup. It's worth remembering that at the time of the switch, Apple downgraded from 64 bit Power PC chips to Intel's initial version of Core which was only 32 bit.

They didn't get back to a 64 bit implementation until Core 2 launched.

>The P4 had a nickname of being a fanheater, because it ran so hot and had such a low IPC that its performance even at high clock speeds was poor.

The Pentium IV ran so hot that the infamous demo back in the day was of people cooking pasta on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG3wceb05Sg

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Re:P.A. Semi PA6T PowerPC by lproven on Monday June 06, 2022 @11:50AM (#31642017)
> It's worth remembering that at the time of the switch, Apple downgraded from 64 bit Power PC chips to Intel's initial version of Core which was only 32 bit.

Oh my word! That's an excellent point which I did not notice even at the time.

Good catch, and a great video reference, too!

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