> Marta, you always make me laugh! > > As far as Intel chips, I don?t see it (especially in making OSX run on a > standard PC chassis). What nobody is talking about is the developers. Why > would Adobe continue to write Photoshop, etc for OSX (a 3-5% market share) on > Intel chips? They could tell all their Mac customers, ?just boot up your > computer under Windows to run our applications.? Pretty soon, every developer > would do the same and OSX would vanish from lack of support. Think about it... > > Now if Apple could use Intel chips and put some ?dongle? on the motherboard to > make that computer uniquely a ?Mac?, then you couldn?t boot Windows on it. > They could keep developers interested enough in the platform to continue the > same relationships. Of course, then OSX couldn?t run on standard issue PCs and > we are right back where we started. > > > > People, you have got me so confused ------ can somebody talk a bit more > babytalk, so that I can comprehend a little more? after all, parents, even if > they are teaching philosophy at a university don't sing to their children at > bedtime Kant's " Kritik der reinen Vernunft" or the Metaphysik of Aristotle. > What does the intel chip have that the one in OSX now does't ? Or give me a > source where I can read up on chips- and I don't mean the potato kind. > Marta > On Jun 4, 2005, at 22:46, Bill Holt wrote: > >> Personally, I think the so-called experts who are predicting the change to >> Intel chips are full of it. As you note, there is a clear performance >> disadvantage. However, it would not surprise me to learn that Apple is >> finally going to (or is exploring) market the OS to the Intel crowd. After >> all, it looks like it's going to be a year or more until the next time M$ can >> make it's BS claim to have caught up. The features that M$ is promising are >> available now, in OSX. Perhaps the conversations are about how to key the OS >> to one machine. >> >> Frankly, I think this is way overdue and a potential source of more profit >> than Apple generates from selling computers. Imagine the market ... a >> relatively cheap Intel machine loaded with OSX and preloaded with open source >> software sufficient to eliminate the need for M$ Office. >> >> Bill Holt >> >> On Saturday, June 4, 2005, at 09:16 PM, Profile wrote: >> >>> A question for the more informed of the group. If indeed Apple's claims >>> that applications optimized for the 64 bit chip often run the program twice >>> as fast as the best Wintel machine, then how will the advantages go with >>> Apple if they adopt the same chip as the Windows guys? >>> >>> Apple's own website shows the Photoshop performance to be near double the >>> best Windows machines, so does it seem wise to slow your system and lose >>> your speed advantage. The Super Computers of Virginia, and the Military >>> were chosen not because they had an affinity for Apple, rather they saw the >>> potential of the G5 chip. >>> >>> Is this a wise move for Apple to do, if in fact it is true? Also, if true, >>> why would I want to now purchase a new computer with a chip that will one >>> day lose support from the software developers? >>> >>> I for one, don't want to see them become like the dark side. >>> >>> John R. >>> >>> >>> On Jun 4, 2005, at 6:56 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: >>> >>>> On the other hand this is also out: >>>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1823273,00.asp >>>> >>>> >>>> So you have both sides of the rumors to choose from. It should indeed be an >>>> interesting "Stevenote". >>>> >>>> Jerry >>>> >>>> On Jun 04, 2005, at 8:28 AM, Ed Wiser wrote: >>>> >>>>> http://money.excite.com/ht/nw/bus/20050603/hle_bus-n03284709.html >>>>> http://news.com.com/Apple+to+ditch+IBM%2C+switch+to+Intel+chips/2100-1006_ >>>>> 3-5731398.html?tag=nefd.lede >>>>> >>>>> Well the Stevenote looks interesting for Monday. Hope the Quicktime feed >>>>> can hold up to the strain. >>>>> I know I will be sitting at the computer on Monday around 1pm. >>>>> >>>> ----------------------------------- >>>> Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if I >>>> will use it or not, but I will come up with one. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>>> | be May 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>>> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>>> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be May 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >>> >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be May 24. 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