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Re: Worldwide demand for PPC desktops

dammy. damocles@thenostromo.com.

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On Sunday, Nov 1, 2009, AdmV wrote:
> On Sunday, Nov 1, 2009, dammy wrote:
> > On Sunday, Nov 1, 2009, AdmV wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > I have no idea what you are talking about. A G4 class procssor is no where
> > > near good enough in terms of a new design. And I have no idea what you seem
> > > to thing is a saving grace in terms of Freescale. Their main action seems
> > > to be shafting their partners in the ass and expecting them to say 'thank
> > > you'
> >
> > Freescale is rescuing their customers away from that PPC Hell and pushing
> > them towards ARM. Their customers SHOULD be thanking them for doing so.
> >
> > Dammy
>
> What, after shipping broken PPC hardware, and burning partners?

Some of the PPC CPUs were less then wonderful, but I question what broken PPC hardware did Freescale ship? Burning what partners? Apple burned the hell out of Motorola and IBM. Had their PPC partners been able to push sales, why would Freescale stop developement if was making them money? Two way street.

> Whoever signs up with Freescale better hope their new products work, which
> is more than can be said for the tail end PPC parts. And no one except
> Freescale was responsible for that.

What PPC units were that awful in failure rates? Not that I am impressed with Freescale, but I don't remember hearing their CPUs were complete POS either.

Dammy

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