Bruce Johnson wrote:
Well, you may be correct in all of this, but Apple, who is certainly
more in the know about what is and isn't coming down the pike than
all of us, has made the huge decision to move to Intel away from the
PPC.
You have to ask why.
The glib answer is because IBM pissed off Jobs by not getting the
3Ghz G5 out. That's BS.
Apple is a BIG, publicly traded company...it doesn't do things like
this on the CEO's whim. Steve has a persona to maintain, but he's a
damned astute businessman, surrounded by other damned astute managers
and engineers.
SOMETHING made them decide to pull the ripcord on the PPC
architecture, because from where I stand, this is about the last
thing I expect they WANT to do right now, because it has the
potential to completely FUBAR the momentum Apple's got going vis-a-
vis OS X versus Windows in the public mind. Intel and Windows are so
deeply and intimately combined in public perception, I half expect to
see headlines "Apple switching to Windows."
This isn't a race you wanna switch horses in the middle of, unless
there's something really bad about your current horse everyone else
doesn't know about.
--
Bruce Johnson
This is the sig who says 'Ni!'
Steve Jobs has many good points, but one of his bad points is to behave
like a petulant child when something upsets him. Recall how he took
revenge against ATI a few years' back, when ATI prematurely released
info at an Expo before Apple had sanctioned it. Jobs is quite capable of
insisting on a transition to Intel, against reason, just because he's
fed up with his current chip-makers.
There are pros and cons in the x86 architecture, and its supporting
chipsets, as others have analysed. Me I thought the PIII has about as
good as it got. After that the dissipation problems became murderous,
and the coolers became a bad joke. I can't believe how noisy other
people's PCs seem to be, compared with most Macs I know. But I doubt
that would be a problem by the time we see the first Tel-e-Mac (or
whatever we call it).
But with OS X, the obstacles to running on x86 are very slight. Note,
btw, this is the first time I recall that a computer maker has changed
Ends, (big-endian to little-endian). Not that it matters much nowadays.
GWW
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