Re: [LUG] Its official and Tiger for PC available !!!

Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:23:24 -0700

Before returning to bed rest (as ordered by doctor), it is necessary to lament your inability to hold the world in one piece in my absence Mr Mukasa! What is this madness??!�

Look at it this way: Yes IBM has had issues keeping up with the Ghz crowd, but on two counts at least, the arguments put forward by Apple appear a little weak. First, a lot of benchmarks suggest that the 2Ghz PowerPC manages about as well as a 3.6Ghz Intel� processor. Secondly, with both Xbox and PS3 running off PowerPC, chip prices and availability are bound to improve greatly. Intel has always represented mad science (which just managed to work somehow) whereas the RISC crowd (PowerPC included) has always been more pure science.
�I hope we are not back in Job's Hubris Space again... We know what happened last time round!�

P.

On Jun 07, 2005, at 08:31, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote:


There will never be PowerBook G5
You can order a Developer Edition of Tiger (10.4.1) for Intel Pentum processors Today!!
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Jobs says to create Universal Binaries. 90 of+ presentations on Universal versions. 100+ Developer workstations in 7 labs. 500 engineers onsite at WWDC. Next year will be about Leopards, the next version of Mac OS X. More than processor, hardware, the "soul of the Mac" is the operating system. [11:05 am]

Intel is passionate about their products, according to Steve Jobs. Intel CEO Paul Otellini invited on stage to talk about Apple's transition. "The world's most innovative computer company has teamed up with the most innovative chip company." Otellini plays "Toasting the Pentium" commercial from 1996. [11:00 am]

Launch of Microsoft Office 2004 was best product launch for Mac OS X. New version of Messenger due for Macs in the next few months. Additionally, a new update for Exchange users. MacBU commits to delivering a "Universal Binary" for Microsoft Office. Jobs also invites Bruce Chizen of Adobe on stage to talk about Intel-based Mac transition. Adobe says it is committed bringing its applications to Intel-based Macs. [10:52 am]

Apple will offer a Developer Kit, which includes 3.6GHz Pentium 4. OS X 10.4.1 for Intel (preview release). Order today; available in two weeks. [10:48 am]

Rosetta is a dymanic binary translator. Runs PowerPC code on Intel-baesd Macs. Transparent to users. Pretty fast. Jobs demos Rosetta used to run PowerPC macs on Intel-based Macs. Jobs shows Microsoft Excel/Word running on Intel-based Mac (without any porting and/or recompiling). Jobs also shows Photoshop CS2 with all plugins that are translated and run on Intel-based Mac without significant speed decrease. [10:46 am].....................


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