And now we get a processor architecture whose guts are from the late
70's to match. The whole Intel move is a huge mistake. .... 4 general purpose
registers and a BIOS... vomit!
Andrew
Aaaaahhh! now we're getting closer to the crux of the biscuit. while i
will reserve judgement until the new intel macs are out, from a
performance perspective, it may be a huge mistake. back when some
wintel folks were poo-pooing the apple ppc machines, because their
spiffy new pentium processor was rated at 2GHz, and apple was still
struggling to get to 867MHz, those same 867MHz macs were substantially
outperforming their 2 gig pentium counterparts on real-world computing
tasks, approaching double the speed in some cases. the reason? despite
a processor speed that was more than double, the bottlenecks and flat
out retarded design of the whole intel processor/motherboard
architecture (compounded by the windows clusterf***) rendered the
pentiums paper tigers.
whether or not apple is going to successfully apply their superior mb
design in implementing the intel processors remains to be seen, and if
they do, it could likely be the reason that the intel version of OSX
will not work on non-apple x86 machines. they are just plain junk.
so why would anyone want to try to hack OSX onto a DELL, anyway? what's
to be gained? save a few $ on hardware in exchange for drastically
inferior performance and hours or days frittered away in the process?
is your time worth so little? (though judging by the volume of wild
speculation on this topic, it seems to me some people on the list have
way too much disposable time.)
and as far as being a mistake from the apple user's point of view, that
ship has sailed. i reluctantly bought a new G5 1.8 DP last spring
because the latest versions of the applications i use required panther,
and i didn't want to screw around with the xpostfacto hack on my
UMAX/[EMAIL PROTECTED] G4. and now we all get to throw thousands of dollars worth
of software into the trash again, just so apple marketing can say its
processors have more gigahertz? i am so pissed at apple for making the
intel move, i'm seriously considering going the linux route, and letting
apple screw with someone else's wallet.
i guess it would be too much to hope for, for every apple user in the
world to barrage apple management with a relentless flood of hate mail
until they rethink this blunder. actually, re-think is giving them way
too much credit. they need to think about what is going to happen. i'm
certainly not the only person that's pissed. if the app makers come out
with a new mac version next year that requires me to buy new hardware,
again, how could i have any confidence that apple won't turn around and
screw me again two months later by switching to some other processor?
john
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