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Video Reactions to Apple's Intel Switch

Posted by timothy on from the like-omigod dept.

Drew Mylrea writes "Here is a video of the reaction to the switch from Mac users at WWDC (small version). Has a somewhat revealing interview with Apple VP Phil Schiller regarding PC users putting OS X on generic PCs, and sums up the overall reaction to the news.(Requires QT 7.)"

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  1. Re:Just got done watching by shatfield · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The video was well done, but really lacking actual information.

    I think that was the point -- so was the WWDC!

    64bit? Dunno.
    Comparable speed? Dunno.

    Steve should have been more forthcoming.

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  2. "NOOOOOOOO!" by Nova+Express · · Score: 4, Funny
    I must admit, I was highly amused when Darth Vader threw back his head and yelled "NOOOOOOOOO!" at the Intel announcement. However, I was surprised, since I'd always pegged him as a Windows user (you know, one Eil Empire deserves another...)

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  3. Re:Ok that's quite fun by Frequency+Domain · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Jobs has wiped out every single fucking Mac out there, he has killed the true spirit of Mac in one crushing swift blow.

    Statements like this are ridiculous. What, your Mac suddenly stopped working after WWDC? You can't browse the web or read e-mail anymore?

    In the mid 90's I had owned a NeXT cube for four years when they announced that they weren't going to build hardware anymore, and that they were porting OpenStep to Intel, HP-PA, and Suns. The impact on me? I got a nice consulting job helping a company set up a bunch of new HP-PA OpenStep machines. When I added an Intel box to my home office network, I used NFS to share the fat binaries from my cube to the new machine, and everything "just worked". As a matter of fact, my old cube still works.

    To me the spirit of Mac is in the design for usability of both the hardware and the OS. It has nothing to do with what CPU is under the hood. I'm amazed at how many people have their knickers in a knot over this.

  4. Re:Ok that's quite fun by jcr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Dude,

    I know you feel like Steve just killed your puppy, and I had the same reaction myself... in 1993.

    I loaded up NeXTSTEP on a 486 machine, after getting pissed off over having to actually set a couple of jumper blocks on my SCSI card and motherboard, and fired it up. Once I got the mouse accelleration matched to the way I'd had it on my NeXT slab, and started using the thing, I realized that it was just like my NeXT machine.. But different somehow.. What was it? Oh, yeah! It was FASTER!

    Really, if you're not writing assembly code, the flavor of the CPU in your Mac won't affect you any more than whether you have an ATI or NVidia graphics chip.

    A Mac with an Intel CPU is still a Mac.

    -jcr

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  5. no news = no subject by mylrea · · Score: 5, Informative

    The video was a response to the lack of content at the WWDC in general. There wasn't much as far as press went, which was why we started with the whole courtesy of Apple thing. I /.ed it because of Phil's response (it seemed fairly obvious that Apple had braced for the fact that there were going to be people running X on their PC's). Hope that clears some things up.

    As for the audience's reaction, I would actually say everyone was already braced for the news, when it hit everyone was ready to hear the plan. What was stunning was the lack of information during the keynote as to what the systems architecture would be like (not even spilling the guts on the OF / BIOS).

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