Apple Computer plans to announce Monday that it’s scrapping its partnership with IBM and switching its computers to Intel’s microprocessors, CNET News.com has learned.
Changing the chips would require programmers to rewrite their software to take full advantage of the new processor.
Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips | Tech News on ZDNet,
I will post pictures of me naked on top of my car in broad daylight if Apple moves to x86 chips. Seriously.
I really don’t get it. I mean, in light of articles about how we don’t trust journalists anymore someone on the order of Cnet, which most already call a techno-rag, goes and calls it fact and truth that Apple will commodify the Mac by moving to Intel chips.
Unless, and here the brain starts actually working, the move to Intel isn’t what everyone is thinking. Perhaps such a move is more to Intel’s processing and production plants, but they would still make the PowerPC chips? Perhaps these talks are adding Intel to the PowerPC patent group (CHRP and co.) so that Apple can get a “real” chip maker in town to get the G5 to 3GHz and beyond.
Intel making PowerPC chips? Could it really be? I’m unsure of how I feel having the same company making the CPU for both major hardware platforms, but I know that both Motorola and IBM have production problems at the higher speeds that Intel just doesn’t have.
Eh, either way, I’m more than skeptical. I still remember the iWalk, and I’m still laughing at it.
if apple switches from the G5 to x86, i will rasterbate your naked picture and post it on the side of my house. i’m not sure why people seem to think this is inevitable. how many times have there been apple going to intel rumors? how many times have they been false? people seem to be neglecting some very important pieces of information.
1. apple sales are higher now than they’ve ever been (not just ipods, computers too)
2. all the next gen consoles are using PPC chips
3. ibm just started showing off it’s PPC cell based blade servers
4. the G5 has been proven to deliver unmatched value for vector and supercomputing applications (G5 cluster supercomputers and performance with programs like WU Blast)
5. the switch to OS X was only officially complete about 2 years ago, people don’t want to switch again
the PPC is a more than capable processor. the only thing it lacks is the clock speed to compete with the top shelf opterons and xeons. ibm just opened up a factory to produce 45 nanometer chips and it’s obvious that multi-core PPCs are on the way. if we have 2 dual core 3.5-4 ghz 45 nanometer machines within 18 months, the G5 will be top of the heap. not to mention that we’ll get a trimmed down power 5 at some point.
Then you better sit down before reading the Sunday New York Times.
Moving companies, that I can understand. It’s moving architectures that I disbelieve in. No “big name” article has, as yet, made such a claim while the mini-web is all over it as a concept.
We’re waiting for the photos…
I too am waiting for the photos. You are a beautiful blonde techgirl, right?
Looking forward to the pictures. I’m tingling with excitement!
I’ve got 3 words for you
prepare your camera
Well, fuck.
Don’t do it!
…yes please don’t do it, or rather use a stand-in.
And where is the picture? It seems you were talking “seriously”.
So do it. Be a man.
Two problems:
Perhaps in a few months.