At 10:14 PM -0500 01/10/2006, Len Gerstel wrote:
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.
Len, IMO, you're off base here.
The PowerPC was developed jointly by IBM, Motorola, and Apple. It
was, for all intents and purposes, +/- some politics, the follow-on
to the 68K processor family. THAT's why it was greeted with open
arms.
The Pentium, OTOH, is just a buggy stale architecture that's been
wedged and rewedged into new chip technologies just so the clock
could be cranked up. Clock-speed aside, it's a POS no matter how you
view it.
So what makes a Mac a Mac? It is the whole package of hardware and software.
Exactly.
The first generation of intel Macs are a "quick" throw together in
today's boxes, with a few upgrades.
Ah. So you admit that these x86 based machines are padda dodo?
They're pricey too! Now, how many generations of releases will it
take to get back to the PowerMac standard of quality?
But since the heat output of the intel chips that Apple is using is
SIGNIFICANTLY less for better performance than a G5,
So Jobs / Apple's PR machine says. A seeded MacBook locally here
gets a whole 70 minutes on a battery charge, with no wireless
enabled. We'll see what the shipping units actually do.
More importantly, what makes a Mac a Mac is the software.
Well, if we're going to fall of the cliff, let's at least have a
parachute. Gimme a shipping x86 OS X that's bootable on a standard
PC box.
But OS X and the apps will be just a bullet proof as they are now.
A point brought up by a friend last night... As demonstrated by the
infamous Pentium math bug, many applications need to be (and are
legally required to be now) run on differing (processor) platforms so
their results may be compared -- to ensure the correct results.
Agencies that have been using PCs and Macs may now have to rethink
their use of Macs.
FWIW,
- Dan.
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