Re: Oh my....... Intel CPU's???
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:21:16AM -0400, Ray Fryer wrote: At the outset, to change to Intel chips would indeed remove the thing that makes a Mac a Mac. And in doing so would kill Mac's following once and for all. I don't know. You have a different mind set now with OS X. Personally, I think what makes a Mac a Mac is the operating system. Fundamentally, we have always shared hardware with the PC. I'm no real mac'er, but I'd say it is the software/hardware integration. The OS is decent, but not vastly superior IMHO, and neither is the hardware. If there is something to it, it is the combination of both. Half of the PC OS problems are due to the infinite amount of hardware it has to run on. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:vintage.macs@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: FW: Best said reference yet [Re: Oh my....... Intel CPU's???]
I have been looking on intel site for the particular p4 that apple would be using, but searching even for just the word apple yields little. I was curious to know which particular pentium4 apple uses or will use. I have built several pentium 4 systems, one with dual processors, so spent a bit of time reading the intel specs for the 865PE and 875PE chipsets in the 478 pin config. Does anyone know what name the apple intel chip will go by, assuming it is a pentium4 ? Links are welcome. Cheers, Pat Gregg Eshelman wrote: --- NODEraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just because Intel will be manufacturing the chips doesn't mean that future Macs will be running Pentium 4's. If Apple gives them specs for a PPC, they'll make it. They won't be running PPC. The devlopment systems Apple is shipping out soon have P4's and Apple's been doing in-house x86 buils of the full OSX since day 1. There's no reason they're going to use some chip other than the P4 or one substantially like it. If they were, all this other work and shipping development systems with a P4 would be wasted. Some of those software companies are definately going to be optimizing code for the P4. It'd be rather dumb for Apple to then drop theif first production Macs with Intel CPUs on the scene with IA64 chips or anything so different from the P4. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:vintage.macs@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
