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Apple to switch to intel chips in 2006
toadlife:
Come eat your CROW skyman8081!!
:p
toadlife:
--- Quote from: WMD ---Jobs demonstrated a P4 3.6GHz machine running OS X. So, yeah, x86.
But they may not let the OS run on typical PCs, via using a different BIOS or something.
--- End quote ---
Yes. jobs said he won't let people run OSX on non apple computers.
WMD:
Apparently they have a PPC emulator that runs at near-native speed on x86. Given the efforts of PearPC, I don't see how they did/can do this.
M51DPS:
The BIOS will probably be Open Firmware like in Mac's today, but it is just that.... what is the point of using x86 if people cannot use commodity PC's? I thought the point was removing the issue of "overpriced hardware" even more than what they are trying with the Mac mini. Isn't PowerPC 970 supposed to be better than x86-64?
And I really wanted a Cell processor in my Mac....
toadlife:
--- Quote from: WMD ---Apparently they have a PPC emulator that runs at near-native speed on x86. Given the efforts of PearPC, I don't see how they did/can do this.
--- End quote ---
He's probably lying. I bet the performance will be horrid when running through the emulator.
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