Re: [MLUG] Mac moving to Intel

[Dave Lloyd <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Vern Green wrote:

> Well Apple says it is because IBM is unable to meet the demand. I
> wonder how much of it also has something to do with Apple wanting to
> release more upgrades. It seems they are much slower coming out with
> faster processors than INTEL of AMD.
> 
> I think another thought process might be to make it easier for Apple
> to come out with a x86 version of the Apple OS. This can't be a bad
> thing for the Apple lovers out there. There is now way to know for
> sure what Jobs has up his sleeve, but he might be ready to actually
> start gunning for Microsoft in the OS department and just might be
> able to do it if he can get a platform that is very close to the x86
> platform.

Or maybe he wants his OS to be as platform agnostic as possible.  That
leaves the door open for running macos on embedded processors from
brand foo or whatever.  Think of all the stuff out there that runs on
WinCE, even stuff like auto nav systems, BMW iDrive in particular.

Or, maybe he wants to go after the high end with ia64.  Who knows?

--dlloyd
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