https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD- Fu3OdwP4 What does /g/

>>59360269
>Would apple have been better off if they stuck with PowerPC CPU's?
No, they would've been even better off with AMD, even during the car crash in slow motion (until recently because Vulkan) known as Bulldozer.
Only recently is POWER making a comeback.

isnt power only really good for servers or something i cant remember it had some special use case outside consumer

>>59362037
>recently power is making a comeback

What? Where?

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>>59360269
I've built up a nice collection of them. They're cheap and fun to mess with, with lots of archived commercial software and at least a semi-exotic CPU in them, even if everything else is bog standard. They also made more "professional" boxes back then, and that's the kind of shit I'm into.

>Would apple have been better off if they stuck with PowerPC CPU's?
Probably not. They were nice and performed to customer expectations but were ultimately lackluster for a desktop use case.

>>59362104
Great floating-point performance, I believe their I/O is pretty good too for database systems especially.

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>>59360269
>pre-intel era apple
Trash then, trash now.

>>59362189
This shit gets me every time, I wonder how many /v/irgins actually post it in serious context.

>>59360269
>Would apple have been better off if they stuck with PowerPC CPU's?
IBM promised Steve Jobs a 3GHz G5 chip.
Steve, on IBM's advice, had promised Apple users a 3GHz G5 Mac.
IBM reneged.
Hence the shift to Intel. It's that simple.