#Power PC
Well…it may not matter what anyone does for their "new line" of
computers. You see, there's a limit to the amount of power Joe and
Jane Average User can use. You speed up a desktop to the point that
it "beats" the user's think time…and any extra power is generally
wasted.
Of course, it depends on the applications, but for the Average user
an '040 in the Motorola line or a 486 in the Intel line is just about
at that point. For a server..sure, the more power the better
presuming there's enough client apps running to keep the server
relatively busy.
As to using the PowerPC chip in a Mac or an Amiga or MS-DOS box,
why? Why buy a box that is slower than the current native boxes? Oh
sure, there will always be those that want the latest and greatest
whether it benefits them or not.
Think about what people are doing (for the most part) with
computers today. How much of that will benefit from a faster CPU?
I think you'll find that the vast majority have just about all the
CPU they can use right now. It's *new* applications that the new
breed of CPU's can spawn that will more than likely be the target of
the latest and greatest. For example, video and animation
packages..they probably will benefit from the newer chips.
Significant improvements in areas like desktop publishing,
multi-media presentation packages will probably follow also.
But word processing, spread sheets, local databases…nah…they'll
stay pretty much right where they are.
Don