[geeks] Apple/Intel another (pre | per )ceptive article

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:56:11PM -0400, velociraptor wrote:
> This was written/pub'd *last* July.  Some of it is way
> off base, but some of it may pretty well explain why
> Apple kept that "secret" x86 lab.  Surely Apple had
> to know about cell by the time Jaguar was released.

IMHO, the Cell was WAY overhyped.  Good for games, vector processing, etc,
but bad for general-purpose computing from what I can tell.

Too many people acted like Cell was the second coming of Christ.

Bill

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bill bradford
houston, texas