1) apple can't continue to ask their developers to maximise performance for new chips.... we don't even have ms word yet (now i know this is a small switch intel to amd, but the os is optimized and so are some key apps)
2) why would apple want to tie to antyhing but the leader, they gut screwed before for this and spent billions moving away from a smaller partner.
One important point that is missed in the Firewire debate is that I am not surprised Apple dropped it. They are switching to a new hardware platform and it would make most sense to stay as 'vanilla' to the intel chip/technology as possible to avoid potential issues. That just makes plain sense. I would not be surprised to see apple tack on apple specific technology in later revisions once they have the platfrom pat down.
But if what this article says is true - I wouldn't expect my MacBook Pro to ship on the currently stated Feb 15th, since testing, revision, re-manufacture, re-test of a complete machine with all the factors involved would take several weeks (ie once the line has been set up and producing some test units - these would be stress tested for some time befor they go online with production)
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Double-Plus good I say.
it isn't a good match at all. two reasons
.... we don't even have ms word yet (now i know this is a small switch intel to amd, but the os is optimized and so are some key apps)
1) apple can't continue to ask their developers to maximise performance for new chips
2) why would apple want to tie to antyhing but the leader, they gut screwed before for this and spent billions moving away from a smaller partner.
I think, given the contest Windows will be first
http://winxponmac.com/The%20Contest.html
One important point that is missed in the Firewire debate is that I am not surprised Apple dropped it. They are switching to a new hardware platform and it would make most sense to stay as 'vanilla' to the intel chip/technology as possible to avoid potential issues. That just makes plain sense. I would not be surprised to see apple tack on apple specific technology in later revisions once they have the platfrom pat down. But if what this article says is true - I wouldn't expect my MacBook Pro to ship on the currently stated Feb 15th, since testing, revision, re-manufacture, re-test of a complete machine with all the factors involved would take several weeks (ie once the line has been set up and producing some test units - these would be stress tested for some time befor they go online with production)