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<blockquote data-quote="Discerptor" data-source="post: 731542" data-attributes="member: 12177"><p>I find this kind of amusing since the G5 was the first 64-bit processor in general consumer use and the fastest desktop processor for quite a while before AMD gave their Opteron line a major boost in 2004 or so. And both IBM and AMD made multicore processing a point of interest before Intel came late to the party. Intel's offerings for desktops at the time were almost laughable in comparison. It was only relatively recently with the shift to the Core (2) technology that Intel was finally able to make a decent processor for desktop workstations.</p><p></p><p>That said, the G4 being kept in Apple's notebooks for so long was pushing it. The Pentium M was actually quite deserving of praise, and not surprisingly, the best thing Intel did with that processor was abandon the approach their desktop processors were taking at the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Discerptor, post: 731542, member: 12177"] I find this kind of amusing since the G5 was the first 64-bit processor in general consumer use and the fastest desktop processor for quite a while before AMD gave their Opteron line a major boost in 2004 or so. And both IBM and AMD made multicore processing a point of interest before Intel came late to the party. Intel's offerings for desktops at the time were almost laughable in comparison. It was only relatively recently with the shift to the Core (2) technology that Intel was finally able to make a decent processor for desktop workstations. That said, the G4 being kept in Apple's notebooks for so long was pushing it. The Pentium M was actually quite deserving of praise, and not surprisingly, the best thing Intel did with that processor was abandon the approach their desktop processors were taking at the time. [/QUOTE]
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