At 09:24 AM -0700 11/07/2005, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Nov 5, 2005, at 9:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Other than press speculation, I have not found anything specific
from Apple saying a "complete" transition to x86 or Intel by 2007.
Jobs said their "first" deal is with Intel, and at no time did he
say it's exclusive. He repeatedly said "x86", not a specific
processor model.
Press release from the Mothership good enough? :-P
<http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html>
Yea, I read that. It's the PR issued right after his keynote
(written long before probably). "and to transition all of its Macs
to using Intel microprocessors by the end of 2007". That seems
clear, but I don't think *Jobs* actually said that. He was careful
to not indicate they were cutting off PPC totally. And since then,
Apple has spent considerable time with big customers etc, smoothing
ruffled feathers - repeating over and over their commitment to stick
with PPC for the high-end machines.
Intel simply doesn't have anything in the pipeline that, IMO, will
make it advantageous for Apple to use their processors in high-end
machines.
Ultimately, I can't help but wonder how big of a mushroom cloud the
other shoe is going to make when it drops... What are they going to
do to stop people from putting OS X on standard x86 boxes? And how
long will it take for the hackers to get around it? Or are they
going to punt - phase out from being a "hardware company"? That's a
company-killing quandry...
And now back to playing with Tiger on me Smurf.
- Dan.
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