[PLUG] Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Released

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Jun 7 16:02:58 UTC 2005


On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> More to the point, IBM seemingly didn't want to throw its weight behind the
> development of a serious mobile CPU for general-purpose computing. My
> reading is that Apple is all about mobility: the G5 desktops and Xserve
> units are sexy, but it's the laptops that are selling OS X these days. If
> PowerPC wasn't going to make a serious play in the mobile-performance
> category, then Apple did the right thing.

   According to PJ on groklaw.net, industry pundits think that IBM wanted to
shed the low volume Apple business and focus on their high-margin server
chips. In any case, who knows? More to the point, does it really matter?

Rich

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