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What is the Intel Switch Costing Apple?
SenseOfHumor writes "A Business Week article says that it costs Apple $898 for an Intel iMac before loading it with software and packaging. From the article: 'But for Apple, the switch to Intel chips is less about saving money in the short term, and more about hitching its wagon to Intel's longer-term product road maps, particularly in the area of notebooks. IBM's chips are power-hungry and generate a lot of heat, and therefore not suitable to notebook computers.'"
Presumably because Intel desperately want market share, and will do deals to get it, epecially in 4% chunks like Apple has - it honestly wouldn't surprise me if Apple was getting their CPUs at or below cost. Apple's decision to rule out AMD and future IBM chips clearly isn't an engineering one, so it must be a financial one.
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Yes, the Pentium-M is an excellent piece of machinery.
It's just too bad that the best Intel appears to be able todo is with what is, essentially, the rather old Pentium-3 design with a few added tweaks.
Then again, as someone who holds stock in AMD but not INTC, I'm not exactly crying right now.
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Because they wanted a good mobile CPU?
How do you sleep at night?
In order to validate your own choice of platform, you need to induce others to switch to the same computer you use. You could have fixed their PC for free, but instead you toss out their PC and all their software, and "induce" them to replace it at mac premium prices.
If you had downloaded AVG, Zone Alarm and Ad-aware, "TEH VIRUS NIGHTMARE" would have gone away, but since you are a mac user you think the best solution to their problem is to make them mac users too. I guess it's true - if the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems look like nails. Well, I'm sure you can justify your actions to yourself.
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Yesterday I looked around the intel web site to try to determine whether these intel processors in the new Apples are 32- or 64-bit. There was no mention of EM64T, so I figure they're only 32-bit.
They may be 65 nanometre and low power, but if they don't run x86-64 software, they're already obsolete, even at the value end of the market.
You can already buy a 64-bit low-power laptop with a 15 inch screen for less than one of these Apples. The processor is from AMD. OK it comes with Windows, but everyone nowadays deletes that and installs Linux.
Apple just got on the wrong bandwagon. And they were doing so well with that iPod thingy...
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