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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.)
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Man, it is cold in hell today. Brr. :P
- oZ
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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
Fuck.
Somebody send this guy some Worcestershire sauce. I hear it goes well with felt.
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...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It'll be available about 30 seconds after DVD-Jon releases a patch to install Mac OS X on any Dell, and it will be withdrawn about 30 seconds later after Apple mobilizes all Mac OS X 10.4 machines into a botnet to DDOS the living crap out of any server which serves a copy of said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!
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Oh this is so exciting.
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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.
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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. ;-)
The preview includes the computer itself. A 3.6GHz P4. "Read the keynote"
-JD-
What's the fourth horseman???
Free Mac Mini Yeah, it's
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
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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That sounds more like a free operating system running on commodetized parts.
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