Gregory Ruiz-Ade wrote:
On Friday 29 April 2005 08:56 am, Todd Walton wrote:
On 4/29/05, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"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."
Their Xserves run on x86, I think.
No, their Xserves are G5's, just like the PowerMac line.
If this were really the case, the Apple rumor sites would be on it like white on rice, and Apple would be suing anybody and everybody saying things like this.
http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=15701
It's been being said since 2002. Even by Jobs: = When asked in July if Apple would consider a transition from the = PowerPC architecture, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said "we like to have = options."
-john
This doesn't convince me of anything. In the first place, Andrew Neff is an "Analyst". In the computer industry, this generally means he has no talent to *do*, so he *writes* about what others do. And most of his job is to make up crap when he can't find his usual sources on their usual stools in their usual bars.
In the second place notice this line at the end of (non)story:
"In accordance with new regulations, Bear Stearns disclosed to c|net that it owns shares in Intel."
So, yeah, I give a lot of credibility to that story.
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