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From: http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=46175
"This one's bizarre, but we heard at lunch today that Apple is unhappy with the PowerPC production at IBM and will be switching to Intel-compatible chips this very year. Yeah, seriously."
Could there be any truth to this? It would suck if the last readily available alternative CPU platform went away.
- -- Tracy R Reed
OS X on x86? Then what would I need Apple for? It would be essentially the same as Sun getting out of the hardware business and just switching Solaris to x86: an accelerated death to the company. Their software is not so different in functionality from anything else that I couldn't be satisfied with something less expensive and more mainstream if I'm gonna run on cheap commodity hardware. The hardware it runs on is one of the more compelling reasons to buy an Apple to begin with.
Apple is still a niche product. Take away a major feature and they become a producer of a commodity product at top shelf prices. Essentially, a non-player. I think that if Apple even switched some of their computer line to x86, it would eventually kill off their PPC portion and lead to their demise as anything but a irrelevant player in the PC market. If they managed to survive at all.
I've been looking at laptops for a future purchase, and see Apple as the only sensible choice (I don't /need/ to run Windows on a laptop). If at the time I made my purchase, Apples were no longer on PPC, I wouldn't even consider them. How could Apple make the x86 any better than anyone else? It would still be an x86!
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