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Newest PowerPC systems are hot!!! (Power7)
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Nope, POWER is not PowerPC.
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Originally Posted by mduell 
Nope, POWER is not PowerPC.
True, but you could say that PowerPC is POWER.
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You can't have POWER without the OWER, or the P.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
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you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Is that dude wearing safety glasses? 
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Originally Posted by AKcrab
Is that dude wearing safety glasses?
No, high fashion of the 1980s. 
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Originally Posted by mduell
Nope, POWER is not PowerPC.
This used to be true. POWER now contains the full PowerPC instruction set. So, in essence PowerPC has been rolled into POWER.
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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay
This used to be true. POWER now contains the full PowerPC instruction set. So, in essence PowerPC has been rolled into POWER.
And on that note this just shows what happens when you let the creative minds in the tech department come up with product names.
POWERPC is not the same as PowerPC?!
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See, Apple abandons PowerPC and then just a few years later IBM manages to leapfrog Intel with 3.5 GHz 32 core parts. Good one, Apple.
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Intel is wonderful, I can play windows-games now 
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
Cray super computers were hotter. They were completely submerged in a special liquid. Since you couldn't hook the testing equipment up to debug the machines with the liquid in it, you had to drain the cooling tanks. It would debug the machine milliseconds at a time. That's how long the machine could run without the cooling tanks.
Still, whenever I think of supercomputers, I think of Cray. No other company. They just scream... powerful. 
Cray still makes some great stuff, I've seen the Kraken at UT and it's awe-inspiring.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
See, Apple abandons PowerPC and then just a few years later IBM manages to leapfrog Intel with 3.5 GHz 32 core parts. Good one, Apple.
I joke. Haha.
I hear they're great for notebooks!
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Originally Posted by Shaddim
Cray still makes some great stuff, I've seen the Kraken at UT and it's awe-inspiring.
Cray's Jaguar is currently #1 on Top 500. But those are computing clusters. Not quite the same, and not as futuristic looking.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
See, Apple abandons PowerPC and then just a few years later IBM manages to leapfrog Intel with 3.5 GHz 32 core parts. Good one, Apple.
I joke. Haha.
WHY YOU... DON'T YOU R
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carry on. 
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
See, Apple abandons PowerPC and then just a few years later IBM manages to leapfrog Intel with 3.5 GHz 32 core parts. Good one, Apple.
I joke. Haha.
Yet they are still hard at work trying to get a G5 chip in a laptop or at least without a 3 pound heat sink.
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