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fizzwinkus wrote:

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heh heh .. so is a fresh pile of horse manure

but i am still positive about Apple on the whole

Last edited by macnuke (2005-06-09 12:16 am)

fizzwinkus wrote:

have you seen their show? they most certainly do not remind me of mimes or clowns.

Yes, they are more like magical smurfs.

At first i was freaking out,as I just  bought a 15" Albook and was fearing instant obsolecense. But, this actually does have some potential upsides. Whatever the supposed speed advantages between power pc chips of x86, the fact of the matter is both IBM and Motorola f'ed apple big time, and they were relying on these companies who just cannot produce at the scale that Intel can. Apple would continually be behind the 8 ball trying to catch up with Intel, using IBM chips that could not be put into a laptop any time soon, and which were consistently behind schedule on producing chips. Plus, who are moving into the console market and would treat Apple as an afterthought.

And this takes away the whole argument that Macs are slower and Apple doesn't have to justify the whole megaherz myth over and over. Plus, I would think this might make development even easier for Macs now for those used to developing for PC's chip sets and might hopefully open the floodgates on programs to be produced for the Mac.

Its not certain, but it was a move Apple had to make. And long term it will, I think, be a benefit for the Mac platform. The downside of course, is the hit they'll take on sales of macs until they bring out new Pentium Mac.

brian_reilly wrote:

Does anyone think that we'll see upgrade boards with Intel chips for older PPC Macs?  Or is this an impossibility?

You know, I've been wondering the same thing.

oatmeal wrote:

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Innovation will not be included in the intel switch