Personally, I think Apple might go in the ARM direction… maybe. I'd love to see a PPC revival, but using AMD (with their powerhouse ATI division) isn't exactly a bad thing either. My desktop, an old PIII (my iPad is understandably my primary computer, with my parent's HP Pavilion and my college's iMacs supporting it) is in some major need of an upgrade, and I'm definitely looking at AMD stuff (for running Ubuntu, not Win7 ;-). That said, AMD has some great reliability (our old 1999 Presario has a AMD K6 which works better than the PIII), and I think the cool names that AMD gives their CPUs might be more Apple-esque than "Core 2 Duo" or "i7". All-in-all, exciting times for Apple and the Mac-verse in general
Proudly sent from my iPad. On Apr 17, 12:41 pm, Kris Tilford <ktilfo...@cox.net> wrote: > On Apr 17, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: > > > I might be completely wrong > > Yes, your chart is wrong. > > Here's the chart: > > 10.4 Tiger: Separate PPC & Intel versions > 10.5 Leopard: 1 universal PPC & Intel version > 10.6 Snow Leopard: Hybrid 32&64 bit kernel, Intel only > 10.7 ???: 64-bit kernel only > > The process is transitioning from PPC-to-Intel, and from 32-bit-to-64- > bit. Each transition has one "hybrid" build. The PPC-to-Intel hybrid > build is Leopard 10.5. The 32-bit-to-64-bit hybrid build is 10.6 Snow > Leopard. AMD CPUs would be a minor modification with no need for any > separate or hybrid version. Most Hackintosh PCs already work perfectly > with AMD CPUs now. > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is athttp://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtmland our netiquette > guide is athttp://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
