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

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glitch wrote:
Jobs is a freaking idiot.

He had no choice. IBM can't or won't deliver.

There is no 3+Ghz Desktop. There is no G5 laptop. IBM doesn't care: they own the console market.

Apple will take a HUGE cut in hardware sales in the interim. I'll be waiting for the first Intel PowerBook.

Bitter pill this is. :inquisitive:

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nagaflas wrote:
Looks to be the case. Without Apple's commitment to the PPC, we may as well consider it dead, because they will never make enough Morph boxes to sustain the Power PC.

Don't be ridiculous. There will be more PowerPCs sold in the next two years than ever before!

Better yet just port MorphOS to one or all of the next-gen consoles.

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mdma wrote:
Well, WINE will be an easy port to these machines at least. :-)

WINE was ported to Darwin a long time ago.

/Darwine project member

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Hmm, An X86 Linux box that can run Mac and Windows programs...

Why the hell would you use Linux  :-?

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Consoles != Laptops.

IBM can't deliver, Apple must switch.
It makes perfect sense.

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Glaucus wrote:

What I don't understand is why Apple didn't make a deal with AMD?

AMD only has one plant and thus fewer runs. Intel's prices for OEM is likely far better.

Has Apple revealed which Intel chip they plan on using in their next gen Mac? I have a feeling it's not gonna be from the Pentium line up. In which case, all this talk of Windows & Linux is meaningless.

  - Mike

The graphic Jobs used was the M-series.

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strobe wrote:
The graphic Jobs used was the M-series.

Er, I meant Pentium-D