Apple : 2005.06.11 20.23.52
[Garoo - Blog] Jobs was given no choice but to move his business to Intel, when I.B.M. executives said that without additional Apple investment they were unwilling to pursue the faster and lower-power chips he badly needs for his laptop business.
Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[Tuaw.com] The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): All the sales growth is in notebook computers - and Apple has been stuck with the G4 there because IBM can't get a portable version of the G5 to work (nor do they have much motivation to do so, because their own uses for processors is exclusively servers). The Pentium M is far better than the current G4 - lower power consumption and more powerful than anything Apple's got today. By switching to Intel chips, they get a better foundation upon which to build their great hardware.
[Cnet.com.au] Apple on G5 PowerBook: Not so fast: News: The computer maker is well aware that Mac fans want a G5 PowerBook, and technically, the company could offer one now. But given the relatively power-hungry nature of the IBM PowerPC 970FX processor -- Apple has dubbed the 970FX and its predecessor, the 970, "G5" chips -- a G5 PowerBook would require compromises in size, weight and other aesthetics such as noise production. Apple, and likely most of its customers, wouldn't be willing to live with that.
[Macbiblioblog.blogspot.com] The Macintosh Biblioblog: Apple is 'Switching': Apple announced today that beginning in 2006, new Apple computers will run not on IBM's Power PC chip, but on Intel's chip. The transition is brought about by IBM's failure to deliver higher speeds (the 3gig G5) and more importantly Intel's development plans that produce more productivity with lower power wattage usage--think powerbook. They actually confirmed that Marklar exists-from the beginning, OS X has been written to compile on both PPC and Intel all along.
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Intel, Desktop Computer News
Posted at June 13, 2005 12:57 PM
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