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who cares about architecture?
by money on Fri 11th Jul 2003 02:26 UTC

unless you are a ee developing processors, you really shouldn't care about the architecture. to argue one way or the other is pointless. want to know why? because NONE of you have access to the proprietary multi-billion dollar research and development that has been invested by corporations in order to determine the most optimal way to process information. the fact remains that different companies took different development paths, each architecture does have its strengths and weakness when compared. people drum up the relative importance of the strengths and weaknesses while discounting others to make one seem better than the other. the fact remains that they are both fairly equal. if one was in real world situations vastly superior the industry would move to it, but that is not the case. that is also why apples and x86 both perform about the same in the real world - with differences due mainly to development decisions and not architecture i.e. heat vs power vs performance vs die size vs intended market etc. you need to decide what to buy based on real world performance and price. because of economies of scale and because apple is 100% proprietary the x86 will remain the cost/performance leader.