I think the rumor is half right. Apple will not be dumping the
PowerPC, but I would not be all that surprised if Jobs did announce
that they will now be supporting Intel (and perhaps AMD) chips (as
well as IBM PowerPC) for future products and they'll set into place
tools necessary to have products shipped with both Intel and PowerPC
binaries. I.e. Job's is going to open up the possibility of using a
mix of Intel and IBM chips among their products. That will allow
Apple to use what is best and most available at the time for a given
product. Doing this does not mean breaking support for existing
machines and the PowerPC, nor does it mean that no future Apple
products will have PowerPC chips. All it means is that the chips that
Apple can choose from for a given product will be much greater than
even in the Windows world. I think this would be a fantastic move for
Apple.
Steve
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On Jun 4, 2005, at 8:28 AM, Peter Schaff wrote:
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.
- Peter Schaff
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