When Apple decided to leave the PPC platform I was hurt but I fully
understand why they did it.
As a fan of the IBM Power platform, the G5 was a small power 4/power5
machine that did not run AIX and Apple was a small part of the IBM order
that they could not significantly influence the production cycle.
Apple had to battle the perception monster of the Wintel platform.
Intel and AMD were making chip announcement at a pace that Apple could
not keep up with. If you recall, Apple announced that the G5 was the
fastest computer in the world but how long did they hold that crown.
The move to the Wintel platform was a perception move and had to be done
in one swoop. Although I love my multicore Opteron systems, AMD in the
eyes of the consumers is the underdog which is not necessarily the case
across the entire product line.
Look at what this move has done. It has put Apple more into the main
stream and they are gaining market share beyond their traditional market.
Now just an aside. : One nice thing would be for Apple to have a
limited edition run of the Apple IIe with a quad core 64 bit 6502xxxx
that is capable of full 6502 emulation. Just like people snapped up the
retro Beetles, Mustangs, Camaros etc - They would make a mint! Or put
out an enthusiast model that you could get in a kit!
On 10/29/2010 2:10 PM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:
On 29/10/10 10:26PDT, Tina K. wrote:
On 2010/10/28 17:16, Mystic Prowler so eloquently wrote:
I wonder if it would be a good idea to dual-boot it with Ubuntu systems
because Ubuntu still supports PowerPC with their newer system releases.
Actually, Ubuntu dropped official support for PPC several versions ago,
but the community has taken up the slack. Debian has official support
for PPC, and so does YellowDog and a few other variants.
There will come a day when Apple stops supporting 10.5 and then PPC
users will have to decide if they want to continue without any further
security updates or if they want to change platforms.
<http://penguinppc.org/about/distributions.php>
With Apple now making their own chips, perhaps we'll see a new Mac
platform that DOESN'T have "Intel Inside". I refuse to purchase any
"Mac" from Apple that uses Intel. If Apple doesn't start using their
own chips, then at least they should use AMD chips so as not to
support the Intel monopoly.
Even better might be for Apple to use some of their pocket change and
buy AMD; that would really block the Intel/Microsoft monopolists.
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