On Oct 30, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Mystic Prowler wrote: > Let's hope that happens. To be honest, I only want intel to crash and burn to > stop Microsoft in it's tracks.
Based on Apple's history, that could easily happen. Back in the Motorola days IBM was Apple's biggest competitor, and after Motorola couldn't keep up any more they switched to IBM. Now IBM is a rotting shell of the company that introduced the IBM PC, so they move on to Intel. I don't think Apple will "destroy" Intel (after all, IBM processors are still used in several game consoles), but either way they will probably switch to a new processor somewhere around 2014 to 2018 (they have switched every decade like clockwork, from 6502 to 68k in 1984, 68k to PowerPC in 1994, and PowerPC to Intel in 2006), but by then there could be a die hard Intel crowd just like the PowerPC crowd of today and the Motorola crowd of the 1990s. Personally, I hope that Apple will use the resources of P.A. Semi and what they have learned from the A4 to return to RISC, and since P.A. Semi was working on Power Architecture designs I don't think that is an unreasonable prediction. Technically it won't be PowerPC, but it would have all the benefits without the problems with the G5 (they were working on powerful yet efficient processors) and it would be designed by Apple, so that's good enough for me. Steven -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
