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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.
It's crow. Eat up. (I'll have to eat my share too.)
My sig is blank, I typed this by hand.
Man, it is cold in hell today. Brr. :P
- oZ
// i am here.
Mac enthusiasts spouted off about the superiority of their favourite computing architecture, and now Apple is switching to Intel.
Are you sure [y/N]?
I also have been agreeing with the industry analysts who said Apple would be running on Intel chips before long, and I've been vindicated.
Now, if my prediction that Microsoft will have a Linux or other UNIX-like kernel in Windows by 2015 holds up I'll consider myself the Nostradomus of IT.
"I have never won a debate with an ignorant person." -Ali ibn Abi Talib
...when huge monkeys come flying out of ones ass...
Fuck.
Somebody send this guy some Worcestershire sauce. I hear it goes well with felt.
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dude, you must either type like 200 words per minute or you had that already written up obituary style lol
...did he say anything about a two-button mouse?
if(CPU_TYPE == INTEL) {
transparently_handle_endian_issues(filehandle);
} else {
use_old_endian_issues(filehandle);
}
It'll be available about 30 seconds after DVD-Jon releases a patch to install Mac OS X on any Dell, and it will be withdrawn about 30 seconds later after Apple mobilizes all Mac OS X 10.4 machines into a botnet to DDOS the living crap out of any server which serves a copy of said patch.
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Macs run on Intel and Microsoft uses PowerPC! What a country!
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Oh this is so exciting.
...
Over the years, I've made a ton of bets with Mac fans who swore up and down that Apple would never, ever switch to Intel processors.
I am now owed several kegs of beer and some free fancy dinners. A couple people owe me a million bucks.
Business strategy:
1. Make wagers with Apple people.
2.
3. Profit! Steve Jobs will make the announcement for you.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Jobs demonstrated a version of Mac OS X running on a 3.6GHz Pentium 4-processor equipped system, running a build of Mac OS X v10.4.1. He showed Dashboard widgets, Spotlight, iCal, Apple's Mail, Safari and iPhoto all working on the Intel-based system.
That means that I will be able to 100% natively tri-boot Windows/Linux/OSX on the same rig? I cannot wait to do that.
I believe that's called having your cake, eating it too, and not having to clean up.
Little endian makes Baby Jesus cry.
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from http://bertc.com/three_crows.htm :
Crow Pie:
1 crow
stuffing of your choice
salt and pepper
shortening
flour
2 Pie crust mixes
2-3 hard-boiled eggs
Stuff the crow. Loosen joints with a knife but do not cut through.
Simmer the crow in a stew-pan, with enough water to cover, until nearly tender, then season with salt and pepper. Remove meat from bones and set aside.
Prepare pie crusts as directed. (Do not bake)
Make a medium thick gravy with flour, shortening, and juices in which the crow has cooked and let cool.
Line a pie plate with pie crust and line with slices of hard-boiled egg. Place crow meat on top. Layer gravy over the crow. Place second pie dough crust over top.
Bake at 450 degrees for 1/2 hour.
Collected by Bert Christensen
Toronto, Ontario
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As soon as this completes I'll know exactly what it does!
I'll be buying them up like crazy. 5 years from now everyone will want the last of the Macs that actually worked, and had no mat errors and no overheating problems. ;-)
I, for one, welcome our new Intel overlords.
Now, the question is... what will the new platform be called? Certainly not PowerMac...
Power Efficient Mac?
The preview includes the computer itself. A 3.6GHz P4. "Read the keynote"
-JD-
Mac + i386 = iMac
Oh, wait...
Dear Will, the plums were poisoned. -- Cheese Club
What's the fourth horseman???
Free Mac Mini Yeah, it's
As my father used to say, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Doesn't matter, he's still an asshole. (Dvorak, not my dad.)
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You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas
eep!
You mean, developers can buy the transition kit today, compile the new binary for the weekend, and wait for one year til the first intel based mac to test it next June?
That's brilliant!
You misspelled "Phil fucking Schiller."
Har har.
My apologies to Mr. Orwell, but it must be done:
At this moment, for example, in 2005 (if it was 2005), Apple was at war with Motorola and in alliance with Intel. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Apple had been at war with Intel and in alliance with Motorola. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Apple was at war with Motorola: therefore Apple had always been at war with Motorola. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
Even worse, as long as we're admitting stuff, the boxes weren't all that shiny!
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
Steve Jobs ventures forth from Apple to make startup NeXT. Steve dumps proprietary NeXT architecture and ports NeXSTep to beige box PC, killing off NeXT. Steve returns to Apple with much fanfare, and does his trick again by killing Mac by porting OS X to beige box processors. Meanwhile, Sun Microsystems tries to pull a half-assed Steve Jobs, and fails with *two* architectures. HP pulls double-assed Steve Jobs with reverse twist porting HP/UX, NonStop, and VMS to Itanium and kills market for all three!
They take after their CEO that way.
So basically, in 18 months:
:)
Microsoft will be shipping PowerMacs based on IBM PowerPC processors to developers who are programming on the Xbox360 platform, and
Apple will be shipping PowerMacs running OS X, based on Intel processors, to consumers.
Tell my wife I loved her and sorry about the brains on the monitor, because MY HEAD ASPLODE!
In 2007, Apple announces they will be phasing out OS X and installing Windows XP (or Longhorn) on all future shipments.
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I value ingenuity. I value openness. Most importantly, I value liberty.
That sounds more like a free operating system running on commodetized parts.
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Phil Schiller? Is that you?
Get this man more cool-aid, stat!
Unless your hands are water cooled I doubt they get cold.
Heat output was one of the reasons for switching to x86 in the first place.
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison
love it when you talk technical. your logic is inescapable...
Apple switched to Intel ...
... or something.
Debian finally releases Sarge.
It would have been a perfect day if Duke Nukem' Forever was also launched today
I guess just about anything can happen now that Intel and Apple are shacking up. My predictions on the years to come are as follows:
1. The planet Uranus will be renamed Urectum (per Futurama)
2. Concrete will be made from a mixture of water and shit instead of water and stone.
3. Hilary Clinton will become the next U.S. President *shudders*
4. The Earth will turn black
5. The beast will turn pale
6. The seas will turn red
7. The air will turn to poison (is this sounding at all familiar?)
8. Martin Lawrence will be given another sitcom
9. Rosanne will be considered the sexiest woman alive
10. I will get laid
11. Someone will come out with a good-tasting, low-calorie, caffinee free soda
12. Speaking of which, Diet Dr. Pepper will ACTUALLY taste like regular Dr. Pepper.
13. We will find out that light bulbs are, in fact, "dark-suckers" as per the old Internet gag article
14. Canada will become the 51st state
15. They will stop making light beer (FUCK YOU LIGHT BEER)
16. Bill Gates will come out of the closet
17. I'm just going to stop there...you get the idea...
Let's go for it!
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