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Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled.	[QUOTE]Originally posted by ASM65816: [QB] [b] News: Apple discontinues 1.8GHz single processor G5 [/b] Monday, June 20, 2005 My original conspiracy theory regarding the Intel Mac was that Bill Gates' secret M$ labs had successfully created a "Reality Distortion Field Reflector" (disguised as a cell-phone): [QUOTE] Bill approached Steve, Steve sensed that Bill had acquired RDF ability and attempted to over-power Bill's RDF. The RDF feedback loop increased exponentially until the streets were filled with an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters, and both men were flung back in time by eight minutes. Bill, upon checking his "cell-phone," saw the recorded video of his future encounter with Jobs followed by the infinite monkeys, and knew that this would be the most insane WWDC ever. [/QUOTE]But I looked into some other explanations: * Steve Jobs had predicted a 3 GHz PowerMac G5 ... it still hasn't happened. My guess is that IBM has no intention of "losing money" just so Steve can have what he wants. * Intel [b] wants [/b] to sell more CPU's. It's in their best interest. Apple and it's Unix-based OS rely on 64-bit capabilities (and vector processing) for performance. Intel would love having it's CPU's at continuous 64-bit performance, instead of them dropping down to 32-bit for legacy code in Windows. Imagine "Intel Mac Supercomputing Cluster" making the news.... (free advertising) Oddly enough, IBM's G5 CPU's are still major powerhouses. They are the heart of some of the most cost effective Supercomputing clusters, and Apple promotes the G5 as outperforming Intel and AMD. [IMG]http://members.aol.com/asm65816/PhotoShop_G5.jpg[/IMG] From IBM's point of view: 1. The G5 is pretty damn powerful, at a damn good price. (Hence the Supercomputing use.) 2. If you really want computing power, put more processors on the board. (That's how we make "Big Iron": eServer p5 595 with 64 POWER5 processors.) 3. If you want to make a video game box, we have the Cell processor. Note: Sony is using the chip in their "PlayStation 3" game console to be released in 2006. ;) I'm almost out of the denial phase. [/QB][/QUOTE]