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Apple Switching To Intel Chips In 2006

Posted by Zonk on from the late-lamented-powerpc dept.

telstar writes "According to C|Net, Apple has officially decided to drop IBM, and will use Intel processors starting in their '06 line of systems. This change was rumored last month. The announcement is expected Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, at which Chief Executive Steve Jobs is giving the keynote speech." From the article: "Apple successfully navigated a switch in the 1990s from Motorola's 680x0 line of processors to the Power line jointly made by Motorola and IBM. That switch also required software to be revamped to take advantage of the new processors' performance, but emulation software permitted older programs to run on the new machines."

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  1. No news is lame news by luna69 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > Apple has officially decided to drop IBM, and will
    > use Intel processors

    And OSX will still suck.

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  2. I just have to point this out. by autopr0n · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Reading this news made me physically ill. The last time I was this nauseated after reading an article was when Microsoft bought Bungie, my favourite videogame company. Do you realize how pathetic you are? So wrapped up in fandom the thought of a CISC chip running your code makes you ill? What the fuck?

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