Apple May be Intel Show Pony

Robert writes "Computer Business Review reports that the implications of Apple dropping IBM as its chip vendor in favor of Intel, announced earlier this week, will straddle the broader computing landscape. Apple stands to gain a competitive edge by partnering with Intel because it will have access to slightly cheaper stuff."

Comments

Re:Are you Kidding Me?

[kawaichan]

If you want to shop the edu store online, you need to enter your student ID, might be a little bit hard to come by if you don't know anyone going to school atm and when i tried to buy the hardware with edu discount in my university bookstore, they always ask for my student ID.

here is a little comparsion (all prices in CDN):

20 inch LCD: EDU: 899 REG: 999
23 inch LCD: EDU: 1649 REG: 1899
30 inch LCD: EDU: 3549 REG: 3799

Power Mac G5

Dual 2.7 (std config): EDU: 3399 REG: 3799

USB.

[solios]

IIRC, USB was an Intel spec. And intel shipped it, and it worked, and nobody - I do mean NOBODY - gave a shit. Good luck finding hardware, etceteras.

Then in late '98, Apple dropped the iMac bomb.

Not only were they using Intel's USB, they'd dropped everything else. You either got on the boat or you stayed behind. Now EVERYTHING ships with USB - a spec everybody refused to touch until Apple made it trendy and sexy to do so.

Apple + Intel == a very, very good thing. Both companies will get to bust ass doing what they're best at.

Feel the love.

Re:how could they stop it?

[Registered Coward v2]

It would be a weak protection though. It could only work in conjunction with the kernel, and that's easily hackable (isn't it just a BSD kernel?). I think they'll rely mainly on the EULA.

they could also build custom chips on their mb - no chips, no run. Just because machines use the same processor doesn't mean their OS will run on either machines without significant work.

Everyone assume Apple will use industry standard designs as the basis for Intel based Macs; I doubt that will be the case. They've been there before with CHRP and that never really went anywhere.