On Friday, June 3, 2005, at 10:31 PM, James Carroll wrote:
On Saturday 04 June 2005 00:24, Rad Craig wrote:
A friend just sent this to me, thought ti might interest those of you
who haven't heard about it yet:
http://news.com.com/Apple+to+ditch+IBM%2C+switch+to+Intel+chips/
2100-1006_3-5731398.html?part=rss&tag=5731398&subj=news
I've been hearing this rumor for years now. I find it hard to believe
they'd
dump the powerpc line for intel. Think of all the software that would
no
longer work. Thousands of third party and shareware programs would
choke.
That's a much bigger move than it was from 68K to PPC and look how
traumatic
that was and how long it took. And why? The move from 68K was forced
by
Motorola but IBM is just getting started good with the Power line. I
just
don't see it happening.
James Carroll
Not only that, but momentum seems to be shifting over to PPC, what with
the Xbox 360. Not to mention Cell technology. PPC future looks
bright; I'm actually getting excited. Don't think I'd recommend
investing in Intel in the near future. They're playing catch up.
Jobs is all about leveraging opportunities into success by brute force,
and he's good at it. This could be his "opportunity". But it sure
would put a damper on my next 5 years of computing. I was rather
hoping for a Cell announcement.
I hope you're right. C-net sounds rather sure of themselves about this.
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