I just don't get this. Intel is the Windows chipmaker. AMD mimics and sometimes exceeds Intel. Intel exploits its reputation to charge more than AMD does (and frankly I would not touch a celeron chip unless they were giving it away).
PowerPC chips are faster, Mac OSX runs on them natively and Linux hackers for the main distros have usually gone the extra mile to turn out a PPC version.
Now half of the kudos of being a Mac owner vanishes so that Mac can turn out an intel based system. It would make sense if I could load the OSX disk onto my AMD 64 Windows/Linux box and install it in preference to Windows. Mac could put Windows out of business with a superior operating system.
As it is, I only see the benefit to Apple of using cheaper processors to produce cheaper machines. If they turn out cheaper machines which are less reliable (and the kiddies can't play games on them) how do they think this is going to help?
They should work to knock out more Mac Minis if they want to hit the mainstream at a manageable price.
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I just don't get this. Intel is the Windows chipmaker. AMD mimics and sometimes exceeds Intel. Intel exploits its reputation to charge more than AMD does (and frankly I would not touch a celeron chip unless they were giving it away). PowerPC chips are faster, Mac OSX runs on them natively and Linux hackers for the main distros have usually gone the extra mile to turn out a PPC version. Now half of the kudos of being a Mac owner vanishes so that Mac can turn out an intel based system. It would make sense if I could load the OSX disk onto my AMD 64 Windows/Linux box and install it in preference to Windows. Mac could put Windows out of business with a superior operating system. As it is, I only see the benefit to Apple of using cheaper processors to produce cheaper machines. If they turn out cheaper machines which are less reliable (and the kiddies can't play games on them) how do they think this is going to help? They should work to knock out more Mac Minis if they want to hit the mainstream at a manageable price.