Originally posted by FelixDerKater
Report: Apple will go Intel next year
Originally posted by peter2002
It's about time. I'm glad somebody has woke up at Apple. By October 2003, Intel will have the 4.4GHZ P5, so why would anybody want a 1.8GHZ 970?
Peter
Originally posted by Sun Baked
Macs have been sold with Intels x86 style chip installed before...
Originally posted by springscansing
BUT, you'd also have OS X, and great looking machines. If people see a ugly machine, and a beautiful one, same speed, they get the nicer one. Plus OS X is an easy sell over XP. They could target all advertising at this one thing.
Plus, I'm not a programmer, but I'd assume running Intel chips would make porting programs MUCH easier. I might be wrong here, but I don't think I am... there would be a lot greater incentive to develop for mac, since it's not too much more work.
Intel would mean much more mac software, same speed as the competition, better OS, better systems in general, etc.
So... what's SO bad about intel? If IBM is faster, go IBM. But Intel would be great too!
Never said CPU, said installed in a Mac...Originally posted by FelixDerKater
The X86 chips sold in Macs in the past were not the main CPU, but rather a PC compatibility card. So, no, Apple has never sold a computer with an X86 processor as the main chip.
Remember, you asked for it...Originally posted by MrMacman
OH NO
:Checks if pig are flying: Hmm... That only means one thing
:check if core of earth froze: I didn't REALLY want that apocalypse anyway...
heheh.
If you read the article it doesn't say that apple will go to intel... plus IBM is showing life with this 970 Chip, Heck Many Motorola can roll over in its grave and make a faster chip too?
Dare I speak the words of G5!
I would rather be with my competition than fastly falling behind it.Originally posted by Chaszmyr
I am not so sure that will happen... Apple likes being ahead of the game... and if you are using the same products as your competition you will never have a chance of being ahead.
Originally posted by iJon
I would rather be with my competition than fastly falling behind it.
iJon
Originally posted by mischief
Actually, you WOULDN'T have OS X OR the pretty machines: The pretty machines are reliant on a much lower-heat chip than Pentium and re-doing OS X, regardless of x-Darwin would be a giant pain in the ass. It would be vastly easier to go with the IBM PPC 970 and/or Moto PPC 7457 that rewrite and retool everything from the ground up.
Intel would NOT mean more software as OS X isn't Windoze, which is way more pivotal to the software issue than which processor.
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