What about all those pipelines differencies?

I remember all the hype that Apple did about pipelines differencies between PPC and Intel. 7 pipelines vs 20 pipelines made PPC much faster. G5 seemed to have already more pipelines.
So, is this a past issue or is a past myth?

Still a MYTH.....
Back then it was called...
FALSE ADVERTISING..
bollocks.
there were/are and always will be technical differences that give different performances on different chip architectures. there have been times when the PPC chips around were actually getting work done faster than the competitors at the time.. this of course was all part of the usual leapfrogging that happens in technology, period.
of course apple were happy to market the advantages of the technology they were using at the time, and at those moments when it was actually demonstrably faster than competitors, they sure let everyone know about it.
but the shift to intel is deeper than any boring discussion about 'ooh, they were lying to us all along'.. it's a paradigm shift, an ending once and for all of this need to keep pushing a (very good) type of chip design to compete with the other side of the market which is way bigger and has way more money to burn in R & D. in the end, it looks like a good decision for the future, but it doesn't mean that PPC-based macs were always rubbish, always slow and always being lied about in terms of performance. a G5 quad is a competitive powerhouse, any way you look at it.

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