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From: Len Gerstel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [G] BOOYAH!
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:14:16 -0500
If the changing of the processor means that you should sound the
death knell for the Mac, it should have been sounded when Apple dropped
the REAL Mac processor, the 68000 to 68040 in favor of the Power PC
series. So, by your logic, starting with the 6100, 7100 and 8100, they
were no longer Macs.
It was not the same.
The PowerPC is better than the 68K, the x86 is worser than the PowerPC.
Even if it runs faster, the architecture is worser.
Suppose that you can build a Ford T engine (vintage 1924) that turns at
9000 rpm, it will still be a Ford T engine, not a Porsche one.
I
think that once the Mini and iBooks (or their replacements) go intel,
more people will feel safer about buying a Mac, because it uses the
"industry standard" intel processor.
and someone could write a multiplataform virus in x86 assembler, that
looks if you are running Windows or MacOS x86 and then performs the
correct attack.
Rgds,
Fernando
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