Jobs, of course, would lead Apple through a switch, publicly announced in 2005, from PowerPC processors to Intel chips.
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If you can, grab a build that is already compiled (we use build 0.38-3 for PowerPC on Mac OS X.4.2).
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Project Cafe is said to be built with an IBM custom IBM PowerPC with three cores, an ATI-built GPU, and at least 512MB in memory.
Unlike the G3-powered iMac, the Cube uses a top-of-the-range PowerPC G4 processor -- running at either 450MHz or 500MHz -- so there's no skimping on performance.
Intel and IBM already have plenty of relevant manufacturing and materials know-how, with IBM's PowerPC processors competing with Intel's ubiquitous x86 processors to power high-end servers.
Be, which earlier this week announced version 4 of the multimedia BeOS for Pentium and PowerPC processors is currently negotiating bundling agreements with top PC manufacturers.
The new G4 systems were unveiled by Jobs late last month, and feature a new series of fast PowerPC processors running at clock speeds of 400-MHz, 450-MHz and 500-MHz.
Editing video in particular requires a good deal of computing power and two 1.25 GHz PowerPC chips should be able to deliver a noticeable performance boost in certain applications.
The corollary is that today's Pentium II and PowerPC chips will cost about 75 cents in 2008 and will find their way into your washing machine, hiking boots and toaster.
The dual-core Power6 chip boasts a top speed of 4.7 gigahertz, double that of IBM's previous Power5 and represents a next generation processor to the PowerPC, the chip that was previously used in Apple's Macintosh computers.
Inside the machine there's a Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people )-made 1-gigahertz PowerPC processor, an Nvidia (nasdaq: NVDA - news - people ) GeForce4 440 Go graphics processor and a 60-gigabyte hard drive.
Many eyes popped last week when word came that IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) would be presenting a paper on a new 64-bit PowerPC chip that it intends to aim at desktop computers and low-end servers.
The dual-core Power6 chip boasts a top speed of 4.7 gigahertz, double that of IBM's previous Power5 and represents a next generation processor to the PowerPC, the chip that was previously used in Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people )'s Macintosh computers.
Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) and IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) already have plenty of relevant manufacturing and materials know-how, with IBM's PowerPC processors competing with Intel's ubiquitous x86 processors to power high-end servers.
The Register is reporting that PA Semi had a close relationship with Apple in the months prior to the switch, and that the two companies were working together to gauge the feasibility of running native PowerPC-coded software on 2GHz dual-core chips that PA Semi claims run at only a third of the 21 to 25 watts consumed by Intel's Core Duo models.
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