One may criticize Motorola with their slow G4, its new MPC7447A will certainly keep on selling well. Actually, the eweek site tells us this processor should run to 1,5 Ghz, and reminds us that Apple have still sold more G4 based configurations (623,000) on the latest quarter than they did sell G5 PowerMac and Xserve(206,000). And according to Greg Joswiak (Apple's Hardware guru) this is not about to change.
Especially since Apple is not Motorola's unique client, as the MPC7447A will also be used on the Pegasos/MorphOS platform from Genesis. Macbidouille/ hardmac already wrote about this platform as it is possible to have it use Mac OS X and Mac softwares by using mac-on-linux.
It doesn't seem Apple is about to eliminate the G4 from their line. It seems their low end configurations as well as portables will still have a use for this CPU.
Anyway what's really sure os Motorola still have a market to defend.
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