Hi Lou, On Jul 11, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Lou Wilson wrote:
I was part of the project team that maintained the x86 core of OS X and we in on a lot of the conference calls that Apple had discussing the impending switch. What acually happened was that senior management was extremely unhappy with IBM sharing the PowerPC technology with Apple's competitors Sony and Toshiba (via the Cell work, as well as other stuff that hasn't been announced yet). Apple disagreed with IBM as to what their technology licensing agreements said they could and could not do, so Apple basically laid it out on the line and told IBM to cease sharing the technology with Apple's competitors or they woud go somewhere else. I wasn't there when IBM said no, but Jobs was livid at the last meeting I was in on, and demanded to know how soon we could get our work out the door into some Intel based systems.
I'd heard the same thing elsewhere, and it's pretty easy to see that coupled with IBM/PPC's failure to come up with a 3 gHz G5 as promised. Steve made other promises based on that, and so that failed in turn, which didn't help.
What bothers me is giving up Altivec and the near-unlimited G5 memory capacity. To all who are working in hi-end video processing on Macs, that could be a very good thing, as soon as the stick makers can get past the current 1g/stick limitation (not far away as I understand it).
If I had the moolah, there's no way I'd wait for a MacTel -- I'd by a Dual 2.7gHz G5 with 8g RAM in a heartbeat, even if the darned thing has to be liquid cooled.
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