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Apple Hedges Its Bet on New Intel Chips

Posted by Hemos on from the the-smart-move dept.

Corrado writes "The Mercury News is reporting that Apple is still planning to use PowerPC chips well into 2008 for its low end and portable systems. Does this increase the "warm fuzzes" for the Intel move? More information from TheStreet and lots more links from Google News."

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  1. Oops! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And so it won't be a pure Intel world after all ....

  2. Sweet. FP by FxChiP · · Score: -1, Troll

    Whoo, my first first post ever.

    Anyway, that seems like a good idea. PPC is rumored to be more efficient than x86 anyway, but it would be nice if Apple could beef up their CPU speeds more than 30 MHz. :P

    But I don't know much. Plus I wanted to have first post at least once in my life. ;)

  3. Re:Power Efficiency? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    maybe they should have used amd el oh el oh el oh amd amd amd el oh el

  4. Re:no need to panic... by RapmasterT · · Score: -1, Troll
    Apple is just covering their bases. This is merely a safeguard, not an indication that the move is behind schedule.
    Yes, and contradicting himself is not an indication that Jobbs doesn't really know what the plan is yet.

    Anyone else feel bad for their developers? Having to develop two parallel code branches for years to come? ouch...

  5. Apple Finally Gets What's Funny About... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Looks like Apple finally has figured out why the rest of the industry bursts into laughter when someone uses the words "Intel" and "Roadmap" together...

    Looks like Stevey is gonna have a bright future selling sugar water after he tossed out the front door up there in Cupertino. I guess playing chicken with IBM wasn't that bright of a thing to do.

  6. Re:Support? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    OMGZORS, so funny because slashdot always posts dupes LOL!@!!!111!!!

  7. Re:Power Efficiency? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Probably the same way they get people to buy an Apple computer powered by an obsolete G4 in 2005.