It's kind of amusing now that Apple is switching, there are so manyexperts in the boards explaining why Intel is such a brilliant move. Nobody suggested it before the Intel rumors started. Heh.
I find it even more amusing that you believe that. People have been suggesting that it would be a great move years. It's just that the blind Mac fanatics will only believe that this is a good move if they hear it from Jobs. If somebody else says this, they're obviously idiots and this will never happen.
I find it even more amusing that you believe that. People have been suggesting that it would be a great move years. It's just that the blind Mac fanatics will only believe that this is a good move if they hear it from Jobs. If somebody else says this, they're obviously idiots and this will never happen.
Not entirely true. People always imagined that a switch would involve a major app re-write, and simply swapping in Intel chips.
Intsead, the transition seem relatively straight forward, and Intel and Apple seem to have become quite close, and seem to be working together in other ways, as if they are an alliance , as opposed to Apple just being shuffled into the fold.
Intel I'm sure sees a lot of growth for the Mac platform, and it seems they are willing to invest in that.
Not entirely true. People always imagined that a switch would involve a major app re-write, and simply swapping in Intel chips.
Intsead, the transition seem relatively straight forward, and Intel and Apple seem to have become quite close, and seem to be working together in other ways, as if they are an alliance , as opposed to Apple just being shuffled into the fold.
Intel I'm sure sees a lot of growth for the Mac platform, and it seems they are willing to invest in that.
You made a very good point.
I use to think that the switch was a terrible mistake for two means reasons :
1) the transition will be terrible : it looks like that it's not the case, and I was impressed to see that OS X was intel ready since the beginning.
2) I use to think that the G5 will be updated : unfortunately it's not the case : no mobile G5. IBM seems to be more interested in consoles CPU than desktops ones.
yeah we have to remember that virtually NOBODY knew that apple had been compiling os X for Intel from today back 5 years. this has changed a lot of anti-Intel views.
edit: and of course Jobs demoing OS 10.4 on a Pentium 4 3.6ghz 2gb ram, plus developers actually getting to try it out themselves all last week...
RDF is one thing, but winning hearts and minds by proving something unexpected is also what Steve Jobs is capable of. and giving some clear reasons why he's doing it.
we should all give ourselves a good pat on the back for being able to come to terms with this fairly massive news within a week. sadness, grief, anxiety, yes, but when presented with some facts, discussing openly what the hell is going on, and having some emotional venting space, like I HATE INTEL? WTF IS THIS BULLSHIT !!!??!!!
i think we've all come a long way.. also in starting to appreciate the contstraints and complexities of modern CPU architecture, production, etc, etc.
It's kind of amusing now that Apple is switching, there are so manyexperts in the boards explaining why Intel is such a brilliant move. Nobody suggested it before the Intel rumors started. Heh.
But I for one still welcome our Macintel Overlords.
It isn't a brilliant move, it is the only one available. Apple has pursued the alternative as far as it can, and they can't dodge the bullet anymore without seriously harming their future business.
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Originally posted by ChevalierMalFet
Okay,
my question is when will Intel mark the generational change from Pentium to Sextium. And will it sport native pr0n acceleration?
Thought it already did.
It's kind of amusing now that Apple is switching, there are so manyexperts in the boards explaining why Intel is such a brilliant move. Nobody suggested it before the Intel rumors started. Heh.
I find it even more amusing that you believe that. People have been suggesting that it would be a great move years. It's just that the blind Mac fanatics will only believe that this is a good move if they hear it from Jobs. If somebody else says this, they're obviously idiots and this will never happen.
Originally posted by skatman
I find it even more amusing that you believe that. People have been suggesting that it would be a great move years. It's just that the blind Mac fanatics will only believe that this is a good move if they hear it from Jobs. If somebody else says this, they're obviously idiots and this will never happen.
Not entirely true. People always imagined that a switch would involve a major app re-write, and simply swapping in Intel chips.
Intsead, the transition seem relatively straight forward, and Intel and Apple seem to have become quite close, and seem to be working together in other ways, as if they are an alliance , as opposed to Apple just being shuffled into the fold.
Intel I'm sure sees a lot of growth for the Mac platform, and it seems they are willing to invest in that.
Originally posted by the cool gut
Not entirely true. People always imagined that a switch would involve a major app re-write, and simply swapping in Intel chips.
Intsead, the transition seem relatively straight forward, and Intel and Apple seem to have become quite close, and seem to be working together in other ways, as if they are an alliance , as opposed to Apple just being shuffled into the fold.
Intel I'm sure sees a lot of growth for the Mac platform, and it seems they are willing to invest in that.
You made a very good point.
I use to think that the switch was a terrible mistake for two means reasons :
1) the transition will be terrible : it looks like that it's not the case, and I was impressed to see that OS X was intel ready since the beginning.
2) I use to think that the G5 will be updated : unfortunately it's not the case : no mobile G5. IBM seems to be more interested in consoles CPU than desktops ones.
edit: and of course Jobs demoing OS 10.4 on a Pentium 4 3.6ghz 2gb ram, plus developers actually getting to try it out themselves all last week...
RDF is one thing, but winning hearts and minds by proving something unexpected is also what Steve Jobs is capable of. and giving some clear reasons why he's doing it.
we should all give ourselves a good pat on the back for being able to come to terms with this fairly massive news within a week. sadness, grief, anxiety, yes, but when presented with some facts, discussing openly what the hell is going on, and having some emotional venting space, like I HATE INTEL? WTF IS THIS BULLSHIT !!!??!!!
i think we've all come a long way.. also in starting to appreciate the contstraints and complexities of modern CPU architecture, production, etc, etc.
Originally posted by nowayout11
It's kind of amusing now that Apple is switching, there are so manyexperts in the boards explaining why Intel is such a brilliant move. Nobody suggested it before the Intel rumors started. Heh.
But I for one still welcome our Macintel Overlords.
It isn't a brilliant move, it is the only one available. Apple has pursued the alternative as far as it can, and they can't dodge the bullet anymore without seriously harming their future business.