It's true! Apple go x86!!!! :-o

[Doobrey]

glitch wrote:
Jobs is a freaking idiot.  Nobody is going to buy any Macs for the next year.  He easily just lost half of his loyal fanbase.

Maybe even longer than that.
Why didn't they switch to Intel when OSX came out ?
All their happy users upgrading to OSX, paying for new/updated software to run on it, only to be told that they'll have to do it all again in a couple of years as PPC software dries up.
 I'd love to be there when Jobs realises there's a limit to how much you can push your customers.
 
Great, there's a PPC emulator for the Intel boxes, but whats the point in buying a faster mac if it runs all your existing software at the speed of your old one? ..at least with OS4/MorphOS the 68k code ran faster.

Universal Binaries ?? WTF, great idea Steve,I always thought PPC binaries were too small and needed padding out with useless junk :pissed:
Is having to create 2 separate archives too much hassle for developers?

Ah well, I've only just started coding on the mac, but I'll be buggered if I'm gonna buy another one next year just to test my stuff on.

[Doobrey]

mdma wrote:
I think bPlan will buy all the remaining G4 stock from Freescale, and then production will stop.  
With bPlan owning all the G4's.  What will happen to Eyetech?

Well, judging by Alans 20 questions, they'll just carry on with their non-amiga work.
 Almost every answer he mentions the small user base, add that to the 'no new A1 designs past the uA1-I and the XC', and the 'no production runs until we get a big order' etc etc , it doesn't look rosey. :-(

Then again, maybe Alan's just had an idea about recycling ibooks and powerbooks  :-?