[geeks] Apple vs. Sun

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> > > But where is the Blade 150 a better use of $2,000?
> >
> > I mean, just a short comparison:
> >
> > Sun has one slower CPU.  Apple has two faster CPU's.
> > Sun has IDE HDD.  Apple has SCSI.
> > Sun has 100Mbps ethernet.  Apple has 1Gbps.
> >
> I can only think of one Sun advantage that will probably be invalidated with
> the next-gen Apple architecture (the single CPU on die POWER4 derivative).

Does this mean that the next Apple CPU isn't going to use the POWER4's
feature of multi-CPU dies?  That sucks a little.

Peace...  Sridhar