apple and intel a post for us techies Options

[reborn0323]

there has been a lot of speculation about the apple announcement to move to intel processors and this article was a really interesting read

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050609.html

just wanna know what everyone thinks - i personnally can't wait to have a dual boot OSX / windows machine - i just hope apple takes into consideration amd sooner or later

This post has been edited by reborn0323: Jun 10, 2005 - 4:20 PM

[ScoobyDooCruiser]

Its neat. I'm a huge apple guy. I really don't know what this will mean for users. A little easier for software companies to port to mac. I don't know if this will mean that machines will be able to dual boot. Both windows and macintosh will still have a lot of hardware specific parts in the OS, so just having a common chip will not mean that one machine can run two systems. There would have to be a lot of messing with the OS (Apple CEO said that wouldn't be happening) or a computer would have to be built with two hardware sets (which is in theory possible, but very tough) basically a custom set up.

Its interesting, but I don't think its that big of news in the big plan.