{"id":223,"date":"2006-04-08T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2006-04-08T17:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2006\/04\/08\/fastest-mac-last\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T15:21:45","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T20:21:45","slug":"fastest-mac-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2006\/04\/08\/fastest-mac-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Fastest Mac Last?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first Macs to get the Intel treatment were the low-end iMac and the High-end PowerBook (excuse me, MacBook). Next out the gate was the Mac Mini. Rumor has it that the next part of the product line to be X86&#8217;d will be the iBook. The final Mac to be intellified is likely to be the PowerMac, possibly in the late summer\/early fall. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just curious why this order? I would have guessed the PowerMac would have been one of the first systems to go Intel because:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It&#8217;s easier to engineer in a big box than a small one.<\/li>\n<li>The PowerMac user is more performance sensitive than the iMac\/iBook\/Mini\/PowerBook user.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Possible answers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Performance sensitivity demands that the PowerMac wait for more native applications.<\/li>\n<li>Apple&#8217;s waiting for a new, faster Intel chip for the PowerMac.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not so much the performance that matters as the wattage. PowerMacs have watts to burn. PowerBooks and Minis don&#8217;t (but the iMac can spare a few watts)<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s just the product cycle. PowerBooks\/Minis\/iMacs needed a refresh more urgently.<\/li>\n<li>The PowerMac engineers just aren&#8217;t as fast as the PowerBooks\/Minis\/iMac engineers. (Shockingly possible: much product timing depends more on who gets done when than on any specific plan.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any other ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Macs to get the Intel treatment were the low-end iMac and the High-end PowerBook (excuse me, MacBook). Next out the gate was the Mac Mini. Rumor has it that the next part of the product line to be X86&#8217;d will be the iBook. The final Mac to be intellified is likely to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}