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What is the Intel Switch Costing Apple?

Posted by Zonk on from the best-atm-interface-ever dept.

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.'"

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  1. If they don't know.... by MountainMan101 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they don't know, why ask us? Everyone knows slashdot crowd knows nothing. But we'll always comment. So I'll say it's costing them at least a hundred pigs a month in tribute. Maybe some biscuits (you Yanks call them cookies).

    1. Re:If they don't know.... by Zerbs · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, but how many Bacon Jr. Cheeseburgers is that?

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      "22 astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" Stephen Colbert
    2. Re:If they don't know.... by Reducer2001 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I don't know, I didn't go into Burger King.

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      When you get to hell -- tell 'em Itchy sent ya!
  2. the real costs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ibm relationship, $1,000,000,000
    porting operating system $30,000,000

    finding yourself on the platform you have been bagging out for the last three decades? Priceless!!

    -Sj53

  3. Apple, AMD by Piroca · · Score: 2, Funny


    AMD fanboy's logic

    Intel loses market share to AMD
    Apple moves to Intel
    Therefore, Apple loses market share to AMD

  4. Power grab by digitaldc · · Score: 5, Funny

    "IBM's chips are power-hungry and generate a lot of heat..."

    In a related news item, IBM chips are now running for elected office worldwide.

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    He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
  5. hitch your wagon - to a SINKING ROCK! by Thud457 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Hardware: Intel Loses Market Share to AMD


    Apple Computer : Proudly going out of business for 30 years

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    the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

    1. Re:hitch your wagon - to a SINKING ROCK! by ac3boy · · Score: 1, Funny

      "Apple Computer : Proudly going out of business for 30 years" Man, that is one of the best lines i have read in a long time. Good one! Cheers, John.

  6. Economy of the 'Change' by palad1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know what it costs Apple, but I sure know the change to Intel will cost me about 2000 .

  7. Re:Then what are the savings on battery life? by Kenja · · Score: 2, Funny

    There is also no mention of the new MacBook curing cancer and not eating puppies. There for the inverse must be true, it'll consume your pets and give you cancer!

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    "Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
  8. Re:My question is, how much might this cost Intel by RetiredMidn · · Score: 2, Funny
    I wonder how Redmond will respond to that.

    Copy it, probably.

  9. Re:Don't We Know this already? by MochaMan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Really, what this article is saying is that Apple is only making $450 per low-end iMac sold, based on their own estimates, which are most likely wrong.

    Because the $898 worth of parts magically engineered themselves into a computer, set up an assembly line, and assembled themselves into iMacs, made the OS driver updates and general optimisations, and marketed themselves by hiring advertising firms and buying TV spots, then added themselves to the online store and transported themselves to the brick-and-mortar stores. ;)

    I know you realise this, but reading a lot of comments here, it seems most people don't.