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Apple, Another Reason To Pick Intel

[ Joseph Scotts Blog] If you were making a sales pitch to Intel you better not be using a notebook from that other vendor (Apple) running that other OS (Mac OS) on that other CPU (PPC). Even though Intel itself doesn’t make notebook systems or the OS that goes on top of them, no one wanted to be seen as helping the competition by buying from vendors that didn’t use their product.

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[Pbs.org] PBS | I, Cringely . June 9, 2005 - Going for Broke: People "in the know" love this idea, that Hollywood moguls are forcing Apple to switch to Intel because Intel processors have built-in DRM features that will keep us from pirating music and movies. Yes, Intel processors have such features, based primarily on the idea of a CPU ID that we all hated when it was announced years ago so Intel just stopped talking about it.

[Macworld.com] Macworld: News: Analysis: Why Apple picked Intel over AMD: Steve Jobs sent a seismic shocker across the tech landscape in June when he announced Apple would phase out PowerPC chips and put Intel processors inside Macs starting in 2006. To some, the move seemed puzzling: Why would Jobs, the king of cool design, make a deal with half of the empire that conquered the world with cookie-cutter beige boxes?

[Www2.csoonline.com] Apple Responds to OS X-Intel Pirates - Security Feed - Blog - CSO ...: Developers have taken these pirated software builds and managed to make them work on numerous Intel-based processors, with some reports even claiming success getting Mac OS X to work on processors from AMD.

[Theappleblog.com] The Apple Blog » Apple and Intel: Apple could be talking to Intel about developing a PowerPC compatible version of their Centrino technology, which combines networking, interfacing and most importantly wireless networking technology together into a single chipset. As a single chipset, it’s smaller, takes up less space and allows for smaller and lighter laptops.