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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12058 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > It doesn't fix any problem, it doesn't bring any advantage to customers

    It would at least make hardware available that you can buy unused. If you see that as an advantage would depend on whether you see the non-availability of unused hardware as a problem, though.

    > 1Ghz ARM cpus are slower than all PPC equivalents.

    I'm not sure that's a true statement. A comparison for instance between a 1 GHz PPC440 based chip (e.g. PPC460EX) and one core of a 1 GHz Cortex-A9 based chip would prove interesting I bet. We have NBench figures for 1 GHz Cortex-A9 for example. Now we'd only need someone with a Sam460ex to run this benchmark for us to get an idea of the trueness of your statement. Unless you think of NBench as an "inflated benchmark" that is ;-)

    > There's no ARM machine that can compete with a QuadG5 machine in
    > price/performance right now.

    ...and not in performance alone either :-)
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