Apple going Intel!!
mitch @ 9:47 am on June 7, 2005
Hell has frozen over. Atleast thats the sentiment of most mac users. It’s beent the joke for a while, and also been the rumor since the initial release of OS X. I’d heard a long time ago that Apple had a “just in case” plan with OS X, which had every release running on Intel hardware, which isn’t to hard to believe considering its roots(BSD). CEO Steve Jobs confirmed this during his keynote speech yesterday. Now, what I’ve read alot of people say is “will I be able to load this now on my current system?” The answer is “not if Apple can help it”. With the fact that Apple is now going to Intel does not mean that those of us that build our own systems will be able to install OS X ourselves onto those systems. Why? Because they are not changing their buisness model, doing that would put them in direct competion with MS and Linux on their turf. Apples target audience will not know nor care what processor their system is running on. When you buy Apple, you don’t care, you buy the whole package. Why the move then? Well as Steve Jobs put it, there wasn’t a roadmap with the PowerPC. IBM isn’t making it advance as fast as Apple would like, and there were cooling issues with the G5 that prevented them putting it in a laptop. There were also production issues with the PowerPC. With Intel, these are all solved. I’m actually liking this change, its one I wish they would have made along time ago. This may contradict my reactions with Intel, the Pentium D, and DRM I had made a while ago, but as I said there, it heavily depends on how the DRM is implemented. If it can be turned off, and hopefully won’t be implemented in the Apple variety. However, I still think Apple could have gone with AMD, but AMD couldn’t solve the production problems had with IBM either(Its probably debatable, but that would have changed if AMD had gotten the deal with Apple..). Anyway, This all still keeps me probably going for an Apple next time I’m going to buy a laptop.
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