Steve Jobs passed away!

[Digiman]

I'd say the intel transition was one of their best moves...

Intel Mac==PC

Amiga NG shows PPC is expensive alternative, true Macs are PPC for me and justify the extra cost.

128k Mac and iTunes store are perfect Steve Jobs ideas made real. Neither is the best but both were first and inspirational to many rivals.

[Digiman]

It was lulzworthy after spending a decade bashing Intel to see them whip around and give big gay hugs to x86 processors, but yeah, the Intel transition was without a doubt their shrewdest technological move.

No choice  G5 CPU into slim Powerbook casing was never going to happen so....x86 migration begun.

[Digiman]

Going from 68k Mac OS to PPC was not trivial, therefore same difficulty making TriPos AKA AmigaOS run on PPC. Apple did it twice but Commodore Medhi Ali flavour thought to let others write a stopgap. Apple tackled 68k to PPC and then PPC OS X to x86 OS X (and Jobs also did the same with Nextstep going 68k only to x86 and 68k version). Commodore dug their own grave making 6 machines in a row with a 7mhz 68000! Christ the 33mhz 040 Mac LC was THE SAME PRICE AS A4000/030 25Mhz!

Multi-tasking is what kept me away from PC/ST/Mac/Acorn. Again you can thank Doctor Tim King for porting Tripos to Amiga in a matter of months not Commodore for awesome multitasking OS in 1985. Even compared to Nextstep 3.x Amiga has smoother multitasking. Only IBM OS/2 is similar and that's because they were allowed detailed examination of Kickstart/Workbench in exchange for IBM's REXX.

( http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/tripos.html )

[Digiman]

C= was allready planning with non-68k (and non-PPC) CPUs for "Hombre". AFAIR we would have ended up with PA-RISC.

Not sure what that has to do with Apple or Mr. Jobs......

PPC is likely because making an A5000 Win NT PA-RISC based Amiga would be suicide! PPC is the only logical choice as low-end bread and butter A1200 replacement to stab at the nerdy 386 PC gaming crowd sucking the userbase from Commodore.

You pick a CPU with low cost, as Apple were using huge stocks of 603 the production cost dropped AND you do one OS transition and chipset bus interface transition and end up with A1200 AND A4000/040 successors.

PA-RISC would have meant Commodore bankruptcy very quickly as A500 and A1200 were 80% of all Amiga sourced C= revenue, and PA-RISC + 3RD Party Windows **** OS costs = impossible to make low cost mass market future Amiga models.

[Digiman]

erm the £400 21" Touchscreen AIO iMac killer from MSI. Sure it won't run Battlefield 3 but then proper games like RAGE etc never come out for Mac either.