well. holy cow batman. apple using intel cpus. FACT.keynote speech by steve jobs in summary:
ibm can't make fast enough G5s, or G5s that'll work in laptops.
apple have been working on OS X for both G4/G5 and Intel chips for 5 years.
exchange features will come to the mac (currently you can't access calendar properly, and getting email to work properly is a pain too).
they're using a 'rosetta' program that lets you run powerpc apps on intel chips, but people can quickly and easily change their software to run on intel macs.
more links: apple press release | intel press release | MacNN speech notes.
just for some background - Apple have never ever used intel/x86 processors before, they have always used Motorola / PowerPC / IBM PowerPC chips. It makes you wonder what will happen next? Will you be able to install OSX on normal PCs? Will Macs become much cheaper? What CPUs will they use/will the be 64bit? And why didn't they go for 64bit AMD cpus?
apparently 'you will be able to order the 10.4.1 preview for Intel today'
G5 performance vs P4 performance (G5s twice as quick as P4) - perhaps P4s will simply replace the G4s and Laptop CPUs to start with? and then later use Quad core P4s when they get released? apparently they've been talking to AMD as well, although if Apple's deal with Intel is anything like Dell's deal with Intel, then that may never happen...
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Yeah. I had heard rumors but I still didn't believe it. I'm guessing that in reality you'll get to choose between 3ghz dual core G5 processors for server systems, and then choose between 1.5ghz G4 or 2.0 ghz pentium M for laptops. Maybe pentium 4 at 3.4 is really worth switching to.. but I doubt there can be all that much in it.
Seriously, its like apple saying 8086 isn't all that bad. Maybe it means they don't have to develop their own motherboards anymore, which saves them a tonne.
So first intel lost to motorola (original mac), then motorola lose to ibm (g4 replaced by g5), and then ibm lose to intel. Apple might be assuming that intel have a plan for 2007 which includes having better processors than ibm. [~?~] But if they don't, then AMD will be a high power alternative.
yeah - i think AMD seems to be getting these high power CPUs out quicker than Intel - and they seem to be generally better performance/mhz, but I don't know whether AMD have a laptop solution that's anywhere near as good as the pentium m? Also maybe Apple have finally just decided that everybody cares about mhz and nothing else.
other people think: 'this is like when apple let people clone them and is bad' (ie that mac os will end up another pc operating system and then people may just buy pc, use os X), and think of all the piracy on pcs, other people think 'this will hurt linux'
this link: here has some interesting news / inside info on how IBM were apparently treating apple.
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