Why Apple Picked Intel Over AMD

Posted by Zonk on Friday September 16, 2005 @02:31AM from the low-power-and-made-of-chocolate dept.

An Anonymous Reader writes "Macworld has a piece looking at why Apple chose Intel chips over AMD's offerings when it decided to move away from IBM." From the article: "The reason, industry analysts say, is that Jobs has a clear goal in mind: innovative designs. And such designs require the lowest-voltage chips, which IBM and Freescale were not going to make with the PowerPC chip core--and which AMD has not yet perfected 'This is a practical, pragmatic Steve Jobs decision,' says Shane Rau, Program Manager, PC Semiconductors for market research firm IDC. Intel serves up the most complete line of low-power chips for mobile and small form factor computers, and a good-looking future roadmap for it. Also, Intel's mammoth production capacity erases any supply worries. "

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I still won't buy Apple by Cyno · 2005-09-16 04:25 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I wouldn't buy them on PPC, I won't buy them on Intel.

The PPC was the main reason I wanted to get an Apple.

There's nothing they can do to OSX to make it appealing to me when they are ignoring ogg vorbis and partnering with the RIAA/MPAA.

No amount of rhetoric or fanatics will convince me they're on my side. Just like Microsoft, Sun, and Tivo, they are not.