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Apple to switch to intel chips in 2006

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M51DPS:

--- Quote from: toadlife ---He's probably lying. I bet the performance will be horrid when running through the emulator.
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Performance was not horrible when Apple switched from 68k to PowerPC, maybe this time around it will not be so bad either.

WMD:

--- Quote from: M51DPS ---Performance was not horrible when Apple switched from 68k to PowerPC, maybe this time around it will not be so bad either.
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68k = CISC
PPC = RISC
x86 = CISC (essentially)

CISC-on-RISC is easy.  RISC-on-CISC isn't.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: M51DPS ---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.

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I guess because OEMs would be selling PCs with Mac OS X and Apple would probably lose out. And then drivers might be a problem too, I think.

bedouin:
Just because it was demoed on a vanilla x86 machine doesn't mean Apple will go with ordinary off the shelf x86 chips.

mobrien_12:

--- Quote from: WMD ---Jobs demonstrated a P4 3.6GHz machine running OS X.  So, yeah, x86.

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I can understand going to Intel chips.  I'm wondering why they didn't go with the Itanium2 architecture instead of x86.

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