So Apple will use Intel CPUs from summer 2007 on.
What a decision! I guess this is the end for Apple.
Hardware-wise they will be just another Dell (with far less money).
Software-wise they will have to compete with Longhorn-Windows (with far less money). It may be a good thing that Microsoft – after years of X86 monopoly – gets a little competition. But does Job really think Gates will let him licence things like the Direct-X lib? I bet Gates will do everything to asure
Mac-Windows remains incompatible with Longhorn-Windows. (Anyone here still can remember DRDOS vs MSDOS? Those little incompatibilities on apps-level?)
I’m not an Apple nut but I regard this as an absolute strategic error, Apple will be history by 2009.
By: Distiller - 8th June 2005 at 14:24
I bet it will be OS/2 all over again.
By: mixtec - 8th June 2005 at 04:18
Shouldn’t be a problem. OSX is UNIX by any other name and Unix runs on Intel boxes. Some tweaking and thats it.
Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs, saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based Mac. “That doesn’t preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They probably will,” he said. “We won’t do anything to preclude that.”
However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac OS X on other computer makers’ hardware. “We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac.”
Check out this thread on a graphics forum, its currently 252 posts long, so you might want to skim to the end.
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=246505
This forum has 170,000 members, so there are some of the most knowledgable people on the subject you can find.
By: ELP - 8th June 2005 at 00:04
Shouldn’t be a problem. OSX is UNIX by any other name and Unix runs on Intel boxes. Some tweaking and thats it.
By: mixtec - 7th June 2005 at 19:03
The PC as we know it today will soon be dead, one part gone to the notebook, the other part to the next generation of consoles.
The notebook is a PC. And the PC is not going to lose to consoles, if anything consoles will merge with PCs as you suggested with a Mac version of the XBox2. And highend graphics isnt everything when in comes to gaming.
By: Distiller - 7th June 2005 at 18:55
Its a smart move. Using x86 will finally allow apple to allow its customers to use the best off the shelf hardware available. Its still not certain if OSX will be completely compatable to PC x86, but I can assure you even if apple creates its on proprietary version of x86 architecture, there will be plenty of programmers hacking bridges to normal PC x86. And thats a joke that Mac people would use DirectX which is completey controlled by MS when you have the alternative of using OpenGL which is open to development by the graphics/computer hardware industry.
OpenGL is dead on the consumer PC. Look at the market, the only thing keeping the high performance consumer PC market alive was 3D-gaming. Office type apps migrate to Notebooks, other specialized apps like graphics ran on Apple, CAE stuff on RISC machines and Unix derivates. Now that the next XBox360 will have a PowerPC core, gaming will alltogether migrate to consoles and leave the PC market deserted. The PC as we know it today will soon be dead, one part gone to the notebook, the other part to the next generation of consoles. I think it was the worst ever decision Job made to migrate to Intel right now! With a little tweaking he could have made XBox360 games run on Macs and open up a whole new market. And consumer will not tolerate an only partially compatible Tiger-Windows.
By: Grey Area - 7th June 2005 at 17:25
Is this the same as “thinking different”? 😀
By: mixtec - 7th June 2005 at 17:22
Its a smart move. Using x86 will finally allow apple to allow its customers to use the best off the shelf hardware available. Its still not certain if OSX will be completely compatable to PC x86, but I can assure you even if apple creates its on proprietary version of x86 architecture, there will be plenty of programmers hacking bridges to normal PC x86. And thats a joke that Mac people would use DirectX which is completey controlled by MS when you have the alternative of using OpenGL which is open to development by the graphics/computer hardware industry.
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