I’ve been doing a little research lately into new laptops and I am finally starting to understand a little more about processors, etc., so I am dumbfounded to hear that Apple is dumping IBM’s PowerPC chips for Intel’s Pentium line. From my experience, Intel chips a) run really hot and b) suffer from a severe processing bottleneck (3.2 Gigahertz with a 533 Megahertz Front-Side Bus? WTF?). It seems to me that it would have made more sense for Apple to go with AMD, they’ve got incredibly powerful chips which I understand do not suffer from these problems. Maybe there’s something I’m missing, after all, I’m not a chip guy (or a Hollywood mogul).
Enough about the switch, I wanted to share some humor. I love this exchange on Slashdot in reaction to the news:
Dispel any remaining doubts; we are now living in the evil mirror universe.
I’ll believe that when the Red Sox win the World Series!
Yeah, right — that’s about as likely as finding out who Deep Throat is.
You can read the whole trail if you like.
