--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I watched Job's keynote at the developers conference yesterday. The key > decision wasn't the past performance of the PowerPC processors--it was > their future plans. IBM scored at "5" on performance per watt and Intel > at "70" for their projected plans--so it was a no brainer. Plus there > has yet to be a G5 for laptops.
The laptop issue is a biggie. MY concern is about how this transition will affect Apple's high-end during the period when IBM has NO incentive to improve G5's yet Apple won't be producing any high-end Macs based on Inel for another year or so. What was wild was he was demonstrating > some of the new widgets on Mac OS 10.4 and other features on this huge > projection screen. Later in the keynote when he announced the plan for > Intel, he shows the "About this Mac" splash screen and the whole demo > was run on an Intel chip. Every version of Mac OS X has secretly had an > Intel compiled version for the last 5 years. It wasn't so secret. Everyone knew about it, but it wasn't publicly acknowledged by Apple. > > I just hope it makes Macs cheaper. Apparently Microsoft office will be > able to run native on the new boxes. Why would it make Macs cheaper? > > On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:38 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: > > > And, yet, PC's and Macs are still pretty much neck and neck in terms > > of performance. In fact, dual proc Intel Xeons beat a dual proc AMD > > and squished the dual G4 like a bug; the Mac came in dead last by a > > large margin. The G5's faster front side bus speed evened things out, > > but it makes perfect sense for Apple to switch to a CPU maker whose > > primary business is making CPU's and whose procs are advancing in > > power far more quickly than IBM's. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
