On Jun 6, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Dean wrote:
Did anyone see this yet? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050606/ap_on_hi_te/apple_chips
I saw this on Monday. From an end user standpoint, I really don't think it's going to be that much of an impact. My interaction with the computer is not at the chip level, but at the OS level. From what I saw during the Steve-note, that really isn't going to change much. The box he ran the demo on looked and ran like a PPC based Mac. As long as I get the benefits of OS X, and the machines are relatively fast, and stable, I'm all for it. Especially if it means that Apple can come up with machines that have better battery life, run cooler, and/or run more quietly.
Developers are probably going to have more of a mixed reaction, but from the reading that I've been doing, it appears that for many of them, this will make porting applications to the Mac platform a lot easier. One of the game manufacturers said that much of the work in porting from the PC platform has to do with time it takes to convert between the "endianness" of the platforms. A good description of what this is can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness .
Short term, I think that this will definitely affect hardware sales for PPC based systems that are in the pipeline, but I'm not sure how. One side of me says that they will be down because people will be waiting for the new Intel based Macs. The other side of me says that a lot of people will want one of the last PPC based machines.
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