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Apple to switch to intel chips in 2006
toadlife:
--- Quote from: skyman8081 ---The PPC is an open architechture. the AltiVec area's are NOT, and Apple owns them. There is no way to run OS X on a straight PPC arch. (Kiss your wet dreams of putting OS X on an Xbox 360 goodbye). OS X NEEDS AltiVec to run, and Intel has a snowballs chance in hell of getting access to the AltiVec Specs/Designs, and x86 has NO equivalent to it, not MMX, not SSE, and not 3DNow! (And their numbered variants) come close to AltiVec.
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Really? I've read differing opinions about this.
bedouin:
On the other hand, I have a G3 iBook and don't notice a huge difference between it and my G4 that runs at the same exact clock speed. Maybe AltiVec isn't that important after all.
KernelPanic:
Why are we assuming that because they say Intel, that it must be x86?
Intel make RISC lines, perhaps we will be seeing something new and interesting.
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: skyman8081 ---4 is the most likely option, followed by 5 and then 2 far behind.
C|Net is full of shit.
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I agree with you on 4 and 5 but not on 2 since I think 1 is fare more likely. The Acorn Risc computers used to have the option of a pentium PC card to run 86x software without emulation like bedouin said. It was great there was a program like WINE (if I remember rightly it needed Windows files though) that would allow you to run Windows programs under Risc OS what was really cool was the Windows programs took on the style in in some respect the interface of Risc OS it was amazing.
M51DPS:
I think Apple has their hands full enough right now trying to get their customers switched over to 64-bit computing with the G5. We are not going to see another major architecture shift for a while.
In other news, Apple is doomed to die, Netcraft confirmed it just the other day....
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