Indiana John wrote:
Then you are missing the point entirely! The Mac has always been a
combination of unique hardware ( and I don't mean just case design)
*and* the Mac OS. If the new "Macs" are just going to be a PC in an
Apple-designed case running the Mac OS, then it's NOT a Mac anymore.
It would be like me saying that my Umax S900 is a BeBox, just because
it's running BeOS. Even if I cover the Umax sticker on the front with
a BeOS one, it doesn't make it a BeBox. (And yes, I do have a BeBox
too.) No more than I can call my lone remaining PC running Mandrake a
"Linux". Unfortunatly, at this point we just don't know exactly what
the new "Mactel" machines will be like inside, so this is creating a
lot of confusion and speculation. I place the blame for this squarely
on Job's shoulders. He could easily make a a statement clarifying the
situation, but his flair for the dramatic is apparently more
important. As far as I'm concerned tho, if it will run Windoze
natively, then it's just another PC, no matter what it says on the box.
JR
Your way off base. Neither IBM nor Freescale could produce the desktop
or mobile processors Apple wanted. The PowerPC 970 was supposed to be
clocking 3GHz over a year ago and it now languishes at 2.7 GHz. They
even needed to be watercooled at that speed in the G5. Most importantly
for Apple, IBM couldn't produce a PPC 970 chip that was suitable for a
laptop. So what was Apple supposed to do? Keep using G4's with its
pathetic 167 MHz front side bus and just get buried by the competition?
Chris Wood
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