Summary
What were they thinking?
I suppose when I read the
Daring Fireball article
on May 27th 2005 I agreed with pretty much all that was said. I mean
Apple switching from PowerPC to Intel, well it makes little or no sense.
In a nutshell
- Who would want to buy current PowerPC based hardware knowing that Intel
is around the corner
- Apple architecture is fundamentally closed, or lets say difficult.
Running on Intel is one step away from running
OSX on a standard PC.
And how would they support that, or more importantly make any sort of profit
from that?
- And what about all my old software, you would write an emulator?
Well how fast would that run? I cant imagine a software emaulation of
PowerPC on Intel doing anything but crawl. My solution would be to
have dual processor machines. If you want to talk old skool then
something like my old
Dual processor Z80 and 68000 system
So I was totally gobsmacked to read the news reports of June 6th 2005
that Apple really is switching to Intel on the grounds that Intel is going to be
faster and that performance per Watt or power consumed for future Intel systems
will be more than 4 times as good using Intel.
Anyway you can investigate running MacOS on your Intel system
here
You can view the
Apple World Wide Developers Conference 2005 here
Personally I am still sitting in the loco camp, don't think its a
really good idea
Universal Binaries or not.
If you have the time how about
Apple tells me that G5 is best You
just have to be impressed with G5 after seeing this 70MB video. I was so
impressed I went right out and bought another MAC having seen this!
Watching the WWDC 2004
video where we learn again how great the PowerPC cf Intel
Macworld move
to Intel
ThinkSecret
switching to Apple
The Five Stages Of Intel Macs
MacTeens WWDC 2005
commentary video
In fact I am so blown away by the news that I think my confidence can only be
restored by watching some old Apple commercials.
1984 commercial
Toasted Bunnies
Bill Gates prasing the Macintosh
Do your best
It
was a bug dave
Think Different
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