[geeks] OS X on x86

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 @ 09:05 -0500, Bill Bradford said:

> On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:09:30PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > The PC was twice as fast?  Just making sure what you said.
> 
> My Mac: 1.8Ghz / 600Mhz FSB / 1G RAM / SATA HD / GeForce FX5200 Ultra
> the PC: 2.4Ghz / dunno FSB / 512M RAM / SATA HD / Onboard Intel graphics
> 
> The PC "felt" twice as fast.

Interesting.

Does your Intel system have a PCIe system bus? I don't mean expansion
(mezzanine), I mean the motherboard's I/O bus.

PCs are starting to get a lot better in I/O handling.

AMD64 systems use HyperTransport, but Intel is supposedly going to go
with PCIe as the interconnect fabric as well as the expansion bus (it's
designed for that after all).

I assume AMD is going to move forward by increasing the use of
HyperTransport and integrate it with PCIe.

I wonder if Apple moved to Intel to keep from having to pay for the use
of HyperTransport? I assume they had to pay AMD royalties for every
Apple G5 system sold.

Of course, I would find it hard to believe that Intel would give them a
better deal, unless they really wanted this badly.




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