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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. Hello Pear! by eltoyoboyo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like they will want to snap up a bunch of developers from the PearPC project!

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  2. Must be a slow news week at CNET... by MuckSavage · · Score: 5, Funny

    Really, this has been on the table many times. When will this rumor die? Oh, and on tuesday, Steve will announce that Disney is purchasing Apple.

  3. Re:You heard it here first by cxreg · · Score: 4, Funny

    WINE is not an emulator! It's a translation layer, it's totally useless on a non-x86 platform.

    Thanks for the insight. Did you happen to miss the entire point of this slashdot post?

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  4. Re:The sky is falling! by Naikrovek · · Score: 5, Funny

    you know the world is coming to an end when the best golfer is black, the best rapper is white, apple goes to x86 and microsoft goes powerpc.

    good thing i bought armageddon insurance!!

  5. Well spank my ass and call me Judy! by Lisandro · · Score: 5, Funny

    John C. Dvorak actually predicted something that happend!.

    I'm scared. Hold me.

  6. Re:MacOSX on x86? by vocaro · · Score: 4, Funny

    if Apple get's it's own chipset

    ERROR: unnecessary apostrophe overflow

  7. OH GOD FUCK YES MOD PARENT UP by adpowers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry, I just had to follow the trend.

  8. Re:The sky is falling! by pboulang · · Score: 4, Funny

    Holy Crap! Vijay Singh is black?!!?

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  9. Re:The sky is falling! by pchan- · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
    Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
    Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling.
    Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes...
    Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.

  10. Re:It was only a joke by pboulang · · Score: 4, Funny

    Holy Crap! Tupac was black?!!?

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  11. Re:The sky is falling! by AvantLegion · · Score: 4, Funny
    >> you know the world is coming to an end when the best golfer is black, the best rapper is white, apple goes to x86 and microsoft goes powerpc.

    And I got laid! We're all fucked!