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Apple/Intel Speculation Running Rampant

Posted by Hemos on from the is-it-anything dept.

6031769 writes "ZD Net are reporting a rumour that Steve Jobs will announce Apple are going to move to an Intel chip base at their worldwide developer conference today. Still just a rumour, but could this be the masterstroke Apple have been promising or is it a blind alley?" Lots of submissions about this one, but no one knows for sure - there have been stories about how AMD is hurt by this - but I think my favorite debunking of it is the piece by John Gruber on Daring Fireball.

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  1. The most important question: Where is AsSeenOnTV? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    HMMM???

  2. Re:Could be a disaster.... by rokzy · · Score: 3, Funny

    >Can you say binary incompatability?

    Can you make a point without phrasing it as a question? ... doh!

  3. As an Apple employee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    (I'm in the cubicle next to ASOTV) I thought I'd confirm what's going on. It's actually a little more complex than has been speculated upon.

    Apple is building an updated version of OS X called "Mac OS X Extreme", which uses the Windows NT kernel as its underpinning (essentially Darwin is going away, and being replaced by the lower layers of Windows XP, witha BSD-type POSIX layer for reverse compatability)

    This will ensure Apple can still produce high quality and different computers (it'll still have the OS X GUI, for example) while migrating to more popular, and hence better tested, cheaper, technologies. The first machines will be Pentium M based, and we'll see the Mac mini Extreme in 2006, with others following using a forthcoming so-far unannounced 64-bit version of the Pentium.

    These are exciting times.

    1. Re:As an Apple employee by FuturePastNow · · Score: 3, Funny

      EXTREME! just makes everything better. See: Intel EXTREME! Graphics; Wormhole EXTREME!

      You just can't go wrong with EXTREME! superlatives.

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  4. Prediction #3,452 by archdetector · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here goes: 1. Yes, they switch, and yes, OS X will still be closed to Apple machines. 2. Apple will provide hooks for all published MS API's, allowing 90% of Windows programs to run natively within OS X on Intel. 3. Apple will open source the Cocoa API's. They will provide the API's for Windows, leaving others to port them to Linux, etc. 4. Steve will claim to have saved the world by freeing the world from Windows.

  5. Re:Could be a disaster.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny


    Can you make a point without phrasing it as a question?

    Can you?

  6. Intel landfill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Might be a couple Itaniums around that Intel wants to sell cheap ;)

  7. Re:Today... by Kjella · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why, then we'd miss the

    a) update to this story
    b) actual announcement
    c) ...that would be mistaken for a dupe
    d) trolls reposting comments from this story to the next
    e) all of the above

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  8. End of the world? by BenjyD · · Score: 1, Funny

    Isn't today meant to be the day Debian Sarge is released as well? The end of days is approaching, I tell you.

  9. Re:The most important question: Where is AsSeenOnT by porcupine8 · · Score: 4, Funny

    He's busy preparing for his keynote, duh.

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  10. Re:Could be a disaster.... by mr_gerbik · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can you make a point without phrasing it as a question? ... doh!

    Can you make a point without quoting The Simpsons?

  11. Re:Could be a disaster.... by byolinux · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you think I can?

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  12. Re:Could be a disaster.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    *ding*

    Now in the style of a 40's shlock horror movie.

  13. Re:Stock price? Re:Its all just talk. by wvitXpert · · Score: 2, Funny

    Haha, Steve Jobs is talking to the Intel CEO right now saying "Damn it, we weren't going to go with an Intel CPU, but now if I don't go out on stage an anounce that our stock will plummet!"

  14. Re:Just something interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    That's a good arguement, but it's interesting to note that IA64 can go both ways.

    That'll certainly be a handy feature when dealing with Apple users.

  15. Re:Very rampant... by superskippy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Certaintly if this story isn't true, it has to go down as the greatest troll in history.

  16. Re:Very rampant... by sjf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Certaintly if this story isn't true, it has to go down as the greatest troll in history.

    I dunno, those Elbonian's got me pretty bad recently. Had to get my tighty-whiteys surgically removed.

    On the other hand, as a Mac zealot, I'd like to say that Apple will never shift to Intel. It would be business suicide. Unless, that is, Steve announces a shift to Intel today. In which case, it will be the most brilliant business decision made since he invented the MP3 player.

  17. Re:Today... by Kohath · · Score: 3, Funny

    Have you watched a newscast in the last 10 years? Actual news is passe. The news business is now:

    - Predictions of future news
    - Polls
    - Medical warnings that get contradicted the next day/week/month
    - Celebrity sex/activism
    - New movies and music
    - Protests
    - Press releases from Greenpeace, Amnesty Internalional, the NAACP, and other left-wing groups
    - Diet books

  18. Picture by drhamad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your guess is as good as mine as to whether this pic is real... I'm guessing no. But regardless, if it's real, wow, if it's not, it's pretty funny:

    http://forum.macosx.nl/album_pic.php?pic_id=7142

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  19. Re:Today... by Have+Blue · · Score: 3, Funny

    You forgot one: Which common household object may be killing your children?? We'll tell you in 4 hours!

  20. In other news by certsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    Steve Jobs steps down. To be replaced by Carly Fiorina.