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[Doing Something Different: A Weblog by Doug Miller] Wow. What a bizarre weekend and strange Monday on the Mac front! When the blogs were buzzing this past weekend with speculation about the switch to Intel, I have to admit that my reaction to the idea was generally negative. Having just shelled out for a 17" PowerBook, I was less than thrilled at the idea of my investment being devalued that quickly.
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[Blahgger] Apple + Intel, A beautiful combination.: were true, Apple is moving to Intel processors. Suffice to say I'm excited. This transition will give Apple the flexibility to push the boundaries even further in hardware design. Millions..., patiently awaited the news this Monday morning. I too, skeptical, waited eagerly through the keynote
[goskar.com] Apple and Intel: I think at the moment, no matter how many benchmarks I look at, that the processors are just as good as each other. I’ve heard some bad things about the Intel Macs that are shortly shipping to Apple developers, in that benchmarks show them to be much slower than the current top-end Macs. Whilst I admit initial disappointment, there’s a whole year to go before they start shipping Intel Macs, and I’m sure they’ll get some monster of a machine designed by then. Get some working systems out to developers, so they can get recompiling ‘fat binaries’ i.e.
[SA Computer Magazine] Apple to use Intel processors: <!—more—> The move by Apple, which has been the subject of speculation for more than a decade, is a high-profile win for Intel, the world's largest chip maker, and a blow to IBM, whose PowerPC chips are used in Apple's desktop PCs, and Freescale Semiconductor Inc., which provides chips used in Apple's laptop PCs and the Mac Mini.
[Bob Congdon] Apple to switch to Intel chips?: function FixBloggerPostID(postID){ return postID.substring(0,postID.length-1) + "0"; } function DoCommentPopup(postID){ SquawkBoxPopup(FixBloggerPostID(postID)); } function DoCommentCount(postID){ SquawkBoxCount(FixBloggerPostID(postID)); }
[Theappleblog.com] The Apple Blog » Apple and Intel, ”˜Official’: Meanwhile, Intel are losing ground on their x86 chips to AMD, and that probably means there’s some spare capacity at their manufacturing plants. Intel also have a wealth of experience of building CPUs, especially large and complex ones with high clock rates, low-power models for use in laptops, and they now have dual-core technology in their own Xeon CPUs. There was also a story earlier this week (Analysts: Dual-Core PowerPC G5s Due for Apple) that analysts expect dual-core PowerPC chips seen, including a low power version, soon.
[Theappleblog.com] The Apple Blog: To much of the general public, a computer is an enigmatic box, a semi-magical creation which is simultaneously a portal to a half decent encyclopaedia, countless reams of porn and a lot of free music, a free messaging service and a good way to send long, rambling letters to people you don’t want to see face-to-face, a games console that lacks the convenience and controllers of real consoles but sometimes makes up with better graphics, and maybe a half decent typewriter. Whether the processor within is a PowerPC or something descended from Intel’s cruellest mistake (the x86; ask anyone who programmes it low level), whether the operating system is Windows XP Home, Mac OS X or Linux 2.6, most people don’t care as long as it does what it does. To most people, Macs are just prettier. “What?
[Theappleblog.com] The Apple Blog » Apple and Intel: Apple also have much of the other parts of code supported under x86. There was a time when having an Apple application on a Windows platform was a rarity. Now we have iTunes, QuickTime and even smaller apps like the iDisk connector. As Windows focused applications these aren’t bad, and it wouldn’t take as much work as we might thing to migrate the opt layer of OS X - that is, the video components and Window interface that is Quartz and Cocoa in combination with the other tools that make up the layer that sits on top of the Darwin core.
[Blog.wired.com] The Cult of Mac Blog: As far as I know, this is the first time one of Sanada's imaginative, playful designs has been realized as a product. Of course, Sanada has been designing mock Apple products for years. There's no way to tell if Altec Lansing were inspired by Sanada's mockup, or dreamed up the design independently. Just like Sanada's mockup, Altec Lansing's speakers are reminiscent of bazooka-style boomboxes.
[Weblog.physorg.com] PhysOrg.com: Science, Technology Blog: PhysOrg WebLog: science, technology blog for sci-tech oriented people. ... Apple to announce switch to Intel on Monday Intel's Yonah mobile dual-core ...
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Posted at June 08, 2005 06:03 PM
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