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Why Apple Picked Intel Over AMD

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Re:From the GWB school of speech writing by AKAImBatman · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    redundant Pronunciation (r-dndnt)
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  2. How bout why Mach vs LINUX by Danathar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I keep comming back to the thought of what OS X would be like if they used LINUX as their core kernel instead of Mach.

    THAT would be a much more interesting discussion.

    Imagine what OS X would be like today if LINUX was the kernel..

  3. Hey COOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    COOL, Intel are making mammoths now! Sweet!

    Intel's new jingle:

    MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    (oh wait, that's a cow.)

    Hmm, maybe Gateway 2000 were on to something.

  4. I still won't buy Apple by Cyno · · 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.