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Cringley Thinks Apple & Intel Are Merging

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that-would-be-something dept.

SamSeaborn writes "In Bob Cringely's latest column he talks about the Apple switch to Intel and concludes: 'what's behind the announcement is so baffling and staggering that it isn't surprising that nobody has yet figured it out until now. Apple and Intel are merging.' "

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  1. Hey Cringely, WTF - RTFA! by EccentricAnomaly · · Score: 5, Informative

    Quoth Cringely: "Certainly, he never said WHICH Intel chip they'd be using, just mentioning an unnamed 3.6-Ghz development system -- a system which apparently doesn't benchmark very well, either (it's in the links)."

    Those stupid benchmarks are comparing a G5 running native PPC code to the 3.6 Ghz Pentium running PPC code under emulation. Follow Cringely's link to an article that in turn links to ThinkSecret which then explains that the benchmarks are for Rosetta.

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  2. To the Cringely Haters... by Embedded+Geek · · Score: 5, Informative
    I know you loathe the guy, but you have to give him this: at least he keeps score on his predictions. That's a Hell of a lot more than anyone else in the pundit biz does. If he's wrong on this one, you count on him publicly eating crow over it (eventually).

    Disclaimer: Personally, I have no idea on how much faith to put in this particular prediction, either. I just keep my money in the S&P 500 and don't loose any sleep over the specifics.

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  3. Umm... by Paradox · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm pretty sure that Apple has admitted to the devs at WWDC that Rosetta is in fact a Transative-powered technology.

    We all knew that Transative believed they had something big. Evidently they do. The Mach-O binaries with their lazy symbol lookup provide a very nice, natural framework for Rosetta to run.

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