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Apple Switching to Intel
Steve Jobs announced at the WWDC keynote today that Apple is switching to Intel processors. MacNN has live coverage. The bottom line is that Mac OS X for the last five years has been running on Intel, the switch is expected to be complete in two years, and Rosetta will allow PPC apps to run on Intel-based Macs, transparently. If you're using Xcode, it is small changes and a recompile; otherwise, you might be seeing a lot of work ahead of you. You will be able to order the 10.4.1 preview for Intel today.
Everything that Linus Torvalds touches turns to shit.
Transmetta
G5
OSDL (by extention slashdot)
GODDAMN CANCER
Good job IBM. By supporting inferior software (Linux) you lost 95% of your CPU sales.
I have to agree, locking us into a platform for OS X and then switching that platform at will every 5-10 years is completely and utter bullshit. Granted the 68k transition was necessary but this one isn't and who's to say the next one won't be either.
A far better "don't piss off anybody" approach would've been to gradually prepare us for this by telling developers to think about writting their code for portability to something like x86 just in case. And to make fat binaries, even though we don't support other platforms YET.
Instead, we get this typical Apple SURPRISE guerilla style bullshit. I've been an Apple supporter for almost two years now when I switched but now... their arrogance is really starting to wear on me and quite frankly I'm tired of them making sweeping decisions that affect the userbase and taking for granted that consumers will put up with the hassle.
I don't particularly want to see all my expensive Apple hardware depreciate spectacularly when the first x86 Macs appear so I'll probably be dumping all of it off within the next 6 months and be going fully to Althon 64s. It's debatable if after that I'll see value in going back to OS X after having settled in on my Unix of choice.
I just wasted your mod points! HA!
"This sux, this sux even more for my friend who just bouhgt a dual 2.7GHz G5 with 6.5GB of ram who is SWEARING he'll never ever get fucked like that again, imagine how this guy is pissed, just imagine, he just got fucked of over 3500$CAN on a platform that is being dismissed by the company who sold it to him not even 2 month ago."
Does apples announcement today mean that your friends computer just all of a sudden stops working? I would the say he was the idiot for spending that much money on a PC to start with but thats another arguement for another day.
You have to understand. His friend is probably disappointed, because Apple lied to him about the greatness of the G5. Ordinary consumers wouldn't mind. It's marketing after all. But some Mac zealots believe their consumerism to be an act of revolution and consider the words Steve Jobs to be gospel.
oh, come on... there aren't even a million mac users, much less a million mac zealots
Lies about crimes
So in summary, OpenOffice sucks now and will continue to suck in the future?
Fair enough
*buys Office 2004*