IBM First to Market with Dual Core Design Processor
 

The downside: It will arrive in Mac flavors only for now. I can see the Mac community going nuts for this and touting it over the PC community for as long as they can. Will it push Mac sales over PC? Only time will tell.

Its a known fact that AMD is working on Dual Core on one chip designs as we speak and that they are to be publicly available in early 2005 as well. It will be interesting to see how Intel will counter a Dual Core Mac and AMD design if they are first to market.

Dual Core IBM Processor

i doubt it has any effect on mac sales

Ummm yeah it will seeing as the IBM processor is for Macs not PC's. As well its a feature that no other companies have to date in a consumer level product.

Think about this: A dual, dual core AMD system....That's technically 4 processors, I'm drueling....

heh.. come on HD's.. speed up! (remove the bottleneck!)


and hardware doesn't determine success of a platform.. (unless it is SEVERELY BEHIND.. and macs aren't that far back)
people that buy macs could care less what cpu is in there.. it's pretty and blue and expensive, that's all that matters..

alright, i'm not a mac fan, but there are people who are technical and buy macs for good reasons. the G5's have their advantages over current x86(-64) options. Now, G4's...those were a sad excuses for a modern processor for some time, but sobeit.