Is the Ibook G4 intel based?

Run_to_da_hills · 02-02-2008 9:16pm #1

Creamy Goodness · 02-02-2008 9:21pm

going from my memory here but i think from macbooks onwards were apple using intel chips.

i think the first gen of macbooks were powerpc chips though.

zAbbo · 02-02-2008 9:23pm

G4 = No

It's PPC based

monkeyfudge · 02-02-2008 9:29pm

Yeah. When they made the change over to intel they renamed the product line MacBook.

WUSBDesign · 03-02-2008 2:56pm

More such information can be found at www.everymac.com .

Breezer · 03-02-2008 5:12pm

Cremo wrote: »

i think the first gen of macbooks were powerpc chips though.

First gen MacBooks were Intel based, they replaced the iBooks. As were MacBook Pros (replaced the PowerBooks) and Mac Pros (replaced the PowerMacs). iMacs and Mac Minis were upgraded to Intel but kept the same name.

ZENER · 03-02-2008 10:00pm

I don't think Intel ever made a G4 processor - at least not where Motorola or IBM are concerned !!!

ZEN

K.O.Kiki · 04-02-2008 10:54am

ZENER wrote: »

I don't think Intel ever made a G4 processor - at least not where Motorola or IBM are concerned !!!

ZEN

Remember when Intel thought they had a good thing with the Pentium 4?

WUSBDesign · 04-02-2008 11:20am

In the good old days, the proponents of RISC (reduced instruction set computer) argued that CISC (complex instruction set computer) will dissipate/consume so much power that CISC will die a natural death when computation power becomes important.

Motorola, IBM and Apple were staunch RISC-ers producing G3/G4 CPUs, while Intel continued to "CISC" away at skeptics with the (literally hot) 486/Pentiums.

There you go - the rest can be found in Wikipedia.

Is the Ibook G4 intel based?

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