Hey folks, This just came from one of the big Mac proponents at UCLA. He doesn't sound too worried.
Me, I'm feeling a bit bummed, kind of like when Pedro Martinez went to the Mets. Of course, I expected that move. Bill Begin forwarded message: > From: Jan de Leeuw <deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu> > Date: June 6, 2005 14:56:15 EDT > To: "Jose L. Hales-Garcia" <jose at stat.ucla.edu> > Cc: Statistics Staff Statistics <statstaff at mercury.stat.ucla.edu>, > statcompute <statcompute at mercury.stat.ucla.edu>, Statistics Faculty > Statistics <statfaculty at mercury.stat.ucla.edu> > Subject: [StatCompute] Re: Apple to Intel... > > > In case you were wondering, this does not mean: > > (a) that you can run Windows on Macs without emulation. At least > Apple will not provide this, although > of course many others will. > > (b) that you can run OS X on other Intel machines. Apple will > actually try to prevent this from happening. > > (c) that your current PPC program will not run. New Macs will come > with Rosetta, an emulation layer > that allows Intel Macs to run PPC code. > > (d) that major programs will disappear -- both Microsoft and Adobe > will provide fat binaries that run > on both architectures. It took Theodore Grey two hours to port > Mathematica to the Intel Mac. > > (e) that users have to learn something new -- changing the CPU will > obviously be transparent > > I have ordered a Pentium 4 Mac with software development kit so > that R etc can be ported quickly. > > > On Jun 6, 2005, at 11:42 , Jose L. Hales-Garcia wrote: > > >> >> >> In case you hadn't heard the news. You can stop holding your >> breath for a G5 Powerbook. It won't ever happen. Apple is >> transitioning to Intel over the next couple of years(1). One of >> the reasons being that a next generation Powerbook can only be >> achieved in this way. Another reason is WiMax(2). >> >> Jose >> >> (1) http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html >> (2) http://www.intel.com/netcomms/technologies/wimax/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> StatFaculty mailing list >> StatFaculty at lists.stat.ucla.edu >> http://lists.stat.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/statfaculty >> >> >> > > === > Jan de Leeuw; Distinguished Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of > Statistics; > Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical > Software > US mail: 8130 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA > 90095-1554 > phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: > deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu > .mac: jdeleeuw ++++++ aim: deleeuwjan ++++++ skype: j_deleeuw > homepages: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ++++++ http://www.cuddyvalley.org > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------- > No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai > http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > StatCompute mailing list > StatCompute at lists.stat.ucla.edu > http://lists.stat.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/statcompute > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050606/7bf57fda/attachment.bin
