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Apple to switch to intel chips in 2006
toadlife:
Price, Price, Price.
They want to compete with PC's on price. I guess they are banking on the hope that people will buy their box for the kick-ass OS with killer app support that comes with it.
I really don't think it will work, but you never know.
Aloone_Jonez:
I don't believe this, if Apple really do this it wiil be to their demise, most PC user would rather run Windows I don't see how they can make any money from this.
Siplus:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---I don't believe this, if Apple really do this it wiil be to their demise, most PC user would rather run Windows I don't see how they can make any money from this.
--- End quote ---
It's easy; Consumers will see a bigger number in front of Ghz, see a familiar name 'Intel', have all the advantages they have heard about MAC, will have faster/cooler/64-bit laptops for added performance, AND the chips will probably cost Apple less than IBM's PPC.
I'm starting to see apple's way
Kintaro:
If I was apple I would be going for AMD64, but im not a retard.
choasforages:
its ibm's fault......apple was one of there last hopes to stomp MS into the ground. then agian, apple might be trying a new trick, one that ms never pulled off, remember how the old winnt could boot on almost anything? x86, mips, alpha, ppc, and sparc i think? imagine if osx got that kinda multiplatform support, and did it correctly. different processers do different things well, intel chips are great at throughing integers around. alpha used to be able to beat anyting in its path down with its floating point ability. mips is cheap and easy to engineer your own solution and depending on how its built, can be one of the fastest procs out there. sparc is good for throughing data around. and powerpc is my prefered proccessor these days.
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