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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.
Somebody send this guy some Worcestershire sauce. I hear it goes well with felt.
No time for that now! I have to work up my new explanation of why CISC is better than RISC, MMX is better than AltiVec and only an idiot would ever think otherwise!
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
I'll believe that when the Red Sox win the World Series!
...did he say anything about a two-button mouse?
we are now living in the evil mirror universe
I'll believe that when the Red Sox win the World Series!
Yeah, right -- that's about as likely as finding out who Deep Throat is.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Sorry, just seemed appropriate.
I am trolling
"Like Fermat's theorem, it's a puzzle we may never solve" - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Karma: Excer..ex...excellahhh...realll good (mostly affected by drinking not done in moderation)
That is no iMac. It is a workstation.
You can't win. But, there are alternatives to fighting...
Intel + Mac = IMac
I prefer Mac + Intel = Mattel.
No, that only happens after if Jobs would announce that Apple is ditching OS X for Windows.
This only caused the I/O of some geeks to choke up due to wrong endianness. But for most Mac users the network flows as calm as ever.
“Wait for Hurd if you want something real” –Linus
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.
Lawyers?