Some quotes that struck me, for one reason or another, from around the ‘net:
Apple have betrayed us all never again will i use a mac and no more will they be as pc users flock to buy osx for pentium 4s i wish i was there i would have bood
Maybe the gaming consoles have tied up all the high-end chips from IBM for the forseeable future. This is how our friend Bill is finally going to blow Apple out of the water - prevent them from building boxes. Apple sees this and instead of running back to Moto with their tail between their legs, they hedge their bets and go intel. I hope not, but you never know… 3 chips per box x 1 million Xboxen this XMAS - and Apple still stuck at 2.8 GHz 18 months after the 3 GHz promise? It’s a nightmare, but a possibility, knowing IBM’s penchant for promising the world and not always delivering…
I’m kind of shocked. Does this mean no new hardware until the intel stuff begins to ship by next year’s WWDC? That would be an insane business move. They should at least update the ibook and mac mini. I am disappointed
There won’t be news of non-Apple PCs that run Mac OS X at all. And Apple won’t take any steps to make that possible, at least in the short term. But clever hackers will work very, very hard to create homebrew Macs.
“We plan to create future versions of Microsoft Office for the Mac that support both PowerPC and Intel processors,” said Roz Ho, general manager of Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit. “We have a strong relationship with Apple and will work closely with them to continue our long tradition of making great applications for a great platform.”
On x86, if Intel doesn’t delivers, Apple could always turn to AMD as their major supplier. Lots of options with x86, as oppose to PowerPC with Motorola (or Freescale) and IBM as their only options…
- Apple Switching to Intel
- Some food differences
- Inteltop: Apple’s MacBook Pro
- Mac. Touché
- Are Macs still overpriced?
- AMD Beats Intel in CPU Sales
- Obsolete GHz Rating System
- Evolution of the Mighty Mouse: 1985-2005
- Macs have more viruses
- Apple iPod nano
» OS X Password Recovery Discussion
» the year of the OS X exploit
» Eject CD from Mac Mini
» Installed OS X Tiger on my Mac Mini
I installed mac osx86 (hacked version) on my Pentium 4 1.9GHz and it works fine. It doesn’t recognized my soundcard though. But it’s a far faster than XP running on the same hardware.
I belive that shifting to x86 and x64 will be good for Apple as it would shift to more mainstream systems. Anything that screws Microsoft must be a good thing. I belive that at current Apples are the preserve of people who want to be different, people who buy them “to get on that interwhatsit thingy” (a fortuantly dieing breed) and “creatives”. By “creatives” I refer to webdesigners (such as myself), video editors and photographers, and everything else between. As Apple shifts x86, I hope to see them shift to AMD chips prefereably, but a £50 OEM box with an install disk and reg key would be a boon for all of them lovely people who have concidered linux, tried it and got swamped with anything more complex than a live disk (Like oneself. Albeit my issue is the giant downloads required!).
In summery, I belive that going x86 and x64 is a great thing to draw in new MAC users, but they run the risk of alienating their current backing. I belive they should make an iMac lookalike with a x86 in it. That I would buy. Immediatly. Think about it. Put a TFT in the front and concider how roomy those things are. I have been concidering getting a broken iMac and doing just this.
-Peace out
From GreyscaleFox
Apple needs to pull their head out of their A$$. Its amazing to me how stupidly stuck up some people are, simply because their platform is more expensive. look at jaguar, not true now, mind you, they saw the light. but at one time jag was selling cars for an amazing amount of money, and the average every day ford would not only outlast it, but it was more efficient. Here we have the “I just paid a lot of money for this underprocessing pretty deskweight and now i have to justify that by putting down the companies that make better, faster hardware, because they dont cost as much, and because i paid more for it mines better” attitude. Now that Mac has taken the first step from coming out of its decrepid hole, it has held onto its last strand of individuality and by doing that, has only alienated itself to mass market. thats why M$ had to save their asses in the past. Bill wanted a good competitor, someone who was challening. it is lonely at the top. but once again steve is trying to change the world all at once, instead of a step at a time. i Think Macs are beautiful machines, beautiful architecture, beautiful OS and well built for what they are. Proprietary Over Priced Nerd Magnets, For Nerds Who Fear HAving to Set up security on Their Own. Please Steve, if you offer OSX for Other Types of Hardware, i will gladly contribute to taking down the man. Just do it already and quit goofing off. otherwise, go buy a linux box.