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Posted: Jun 6 2005, 07:38 AM
An old rumor has cropped up again, but this time the buzz and sources around it are a lot more substantial than in times past. Apple computers is expected to announce a move to Intel based processors today as reported by Cnet News.
http://news.com.com/2102-1006_3-5731398.ht...g=st.util.print
We'll know if this ends up being true or not by this afternoon after Steve Jobs gives his keynote address at today's opening of Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC).
http://news.com.com/2102-1006_3-5731398.ht...g=st.util.print
We'll know if this ends up being true or not by this afternoon after Steve Jobs gives his keynote address at today's opening of Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC).
Posted: Jun 6 2005, 09:59 AM
Well, it's official. Hell has frozen over and they're event renting ice skates.
Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050606/sfm142.html?.v=9
I guess they simply had no choice, but to make the switch if IBM was just putzing around without coming up with any faster chips in basically all of the last year. I think in the long run this is a good move, especially if IBM continued on its recent reputation of ineptitude, but in the short run this should put an end to any Macintosh resurgence happening. Whatever CPU you buy that has an Apple brand on it will become obsolete in 2006.
Well, they made a decent OS9 emulator when they made us switch from OS9 to OS X. Hopefully they'll have a decent PowerPC emulator for the Macs that will say "Intel Inside". The next two years will probably be very turbulent for anyone who owns a Mac, but after that things will probably perk up. It'll be easier for developers to co-develop on the Mac OS and Windows at the same time since both will share the same hardware engine.
I guess it was bound to happen. I just wish they did it sooner rather than later, but then again, Apple may not have been able to survive an announcement like this a year or two ago.
Ugh.
Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050606/sfm142.html?.v=9
I guess they simply had no choice, but to make the switch if IBM was just putzing around without coming up with any faster chips in basically all of the last year. I think in the long run this is a good move, especially if IBM continued on its recent reputation of ineptitude, but in the short run this should put an end to any Macintosh resurgence happening. Whatever CPU you buy that has an Apple brand on it will become obsolete in 2006.
Well, they made a decent OS9 emulator when they made us switch from OS9 to OS X. Hopefully they'll have a decent PowerPC emulator for the Macs that will say "Intel Inside". The next two years will probably be very turbulent for anyone who owns a Mac, but after that things will probably perk up. It'll be easier for developers to co-develop on the Mac OS and Windows at the same time since both will share the same hardware engine.
I guess it was bound to happen. I just wish they did it sooner rather than later, but then again, Apple may not have been able to survive an announcement like this a year or two ago.
Ugh.
Posted: Jun 7 2005, 02:55 AM
Well, hopefully my pessimism was premature. I feel a lot better after watching the keynote address given by Steve Jobs.
2005 WWDC Keynote Address by Steve Jobs:
http://stream.apple.akadns.net/
You gotta hand it to Steve Jobs. Everyone there was expecting the Intel relationship to be the shocker of the event, but the real shocker was when Steve Jobs basically told everyone to relax while he revealed that the version of Mac OS X that he was doing his demos on was actually a secret prototype Intel Mac.
Quoting Steve Jobs:
2005 WWDC Keynote Address by Steve Jobs:
http://stream.apple.akadns.net/
You gotta hand it to Steve Jobs. Everyone there was expecting the Intel relationship to be the shocker of the event, but the real shocker was when Steve Jobs basically told everyone to relax while he revealed that the version of Mac OS X that he was doing his demos on was actually a secret prototype Intel Mac.
Quoting Steve Jobs:
| QUOTE |
| We've been maintaining Mac OS X on Intel AND PPC, secretly, for the past 5 years, just in case. Now is the time. Every prior release of Mac OS X has been compiled for multiple architectures. The demos of the last half-hour of Tiger have been on a Pentium 4. |
Talk about unloading a bomb. How do you keep a project like that a secret for five years!?
If what Steve Jobs said yesterday was true, then the transition will merely be an inconvenience to end users, but not the nightmare that moving from OS9 to OSX was.
Still, this has got to make some people think twice about buying a new Mac until the dust begins to settle a year to two years from now.
Posted: Jun 7 2005, 07:21 AM
I watched Jobs's lecture online with Sheldon, and it was way cool! I recommend it for Mac users who aren't even techies. It was pretty amazing stuff.
Posted: Jun 7 2005, 07:57 PM
Interesting commentary from the AandTech site:
| QUOTE |
| Intel needs a partner like Apple. For the longest time, Intel has been promising usage models and concept PCs that we all wanted, but would never surface. PC vendors focused on producing the cheapest system possible, while dealing with backwards compatibility and standards compliance with a huge install base - effectively, making change difficult. Look at how long it has taken us to transition away from the Parallel and Serial ports on PC motherboards or the move to SATA drives. With Apple, Intel finally has a partner that is willing to adapt to change at a much more rapid pace and one that can implement new technologies extremely quickly, thanks to a small, agile user base. The Apple/Intel relationship will definitely change the dynamics of many business relationships spanning the entire PC industry. The question is no longer "if...", but rather "how...". |
