On Sunday 19 Jun 2005 14:09, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > > Apple clone manufacturers > > I thought they were all long dead... URLs?
Never mind; I figured some of these were still going, since they supported PPC before, and new ATX-based PPC boards would presumably just make it easier for at least a few startups. Guess not. > > With all the X Boxes being manufactured, that should help to keep > > PPC prices down. > > You don't think the MS XBox will be a serious product in the > general-purpose computer market, do you? No, what gave you that idea? > It is a limited-function > game console... how will that keep PPC boxen prices down? They'll still be mass-producing the processors (probably on a larger scale than they were ever produced for apple). > > Then there is Cell coming up, which will be in PCs > > Will it? AFAIK it will be only on limited-availability > development workstations for the Sony PS3. I hope you are right, but > who will put Cells in the market if the only OS running on it is > GNU/Linux, applications won't take advantage of it for quite some > time, and current PowerPC sellers have only the G4 1GHz available? Linux is used in high-end computing, don't forget. If cell is anything like they say it is, and it's being produced in PCI card format, I think we'll see Linux boxes FILLED with cells being used (and even sold buy niche suppliers) for high-end stuff. From what little I've heard of the Linux API for cell, it seems to mainly support that model. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list.
