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Subj: Apple to switch to Intel Chips
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Well we have been wondering for years if Apple was going to release OS X
for the Intel x86, it had even been rumored when Motorola was having
supply and quality problems that Apple would switch to Intel, however did
anyone suspect that it was going to happen? Does anyone really know why
they made this decision? Are they serious, or is this a marketing ploy,
to get IBM to either Lower chip prices, increase chip yield, or get their
heads out of their butts and make some faster chips? Just because Intel
stood up on stage and announced a partnership doesn't mean this is set in
stone. Stranger things have happened in the electronics market then a
publically announced deal suddenly falling through at the last moment.
I also wonder if IBM's desire to leave the personal computer market has
something to do with this as well.
Things that I keep asking myself
Why would Apple make the switch?
1) Even though IBM has consistently FAILED to live up to the promise of a
3GHz PPC chip, Apple, Motorola, and IBM have consistently said MHz alone
does not mean one computer is faster at any given process then the other.
For the most part that has shown to be true with BM tests, and user's
experience. Is Apple giving up on this assertion?
2) Does the P4 run that much cooler then the G5? I know the G5 has some
huge ass cooling mechanisms in it, but so does those 3GHz P4s and AMDs
3) OS X was supposed to be switching to 64bit architecture, the only 64
bit chips Intel has are the Itanium, and Itanium 2, both are expensive
chipsets, and the Itanium1 is supposed to have serious flaws
4) You might as well license the OS to PC manufactures, even if you
somehow make it so it will not run on a run of the mill PC, you KNOW
someone will eventually crack it, and you know dammed well that an open OS
x, will be just as unstable as Windows, since one of the problems with the
open PC architecture has always been questionable non compatible
hardware, and drivers
The only reason I can see to move to the x86 chipset, is to once again
complicate the Mac market with way too many models. Low End, Basic P4,
Low end Portable. P4m, Mid Line Desktop P4/Multi Threading, High End
Notebook Centrino, High End Desktop, Itanium processors.
I keep going over all the disadvantages of this decision, and wonder why
Apple is doing this. I hope there is some method to this madness, I guess
we will just have to wait and see.
73 de KF6HDJ (Brent)
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