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

[creis]

I dont really know much about apple crap but my guess is that they are trying to convert to more generic parts so that people will consider then when wanting to build a custom box, or just a machine that is easaly upgradable.

an example car guys can understand:

if civic = pc, and celica = apple

take the civic, why is it that so many people fix up civics, there not the ceapest cars (the car itself is not the ceapest i mean) its because of the market, there are millions of parts for them litteraly millions of thing to by at low prices, where cars like ours (6 gens) have very few (in comparison) so in that sence apple wants to try and get in on the huge pc market, if they start using similar parts (interchangable, or close enough that companies like intell, and what not will beable to make parts for then easyer) then they will be walking into a huge market with tons of people, that would now be willing to buy an apple and mod it.

This post has been edited by creis: Jun 11, 2005 - 11:51 AM

[ghostdog]

I dont really know much about apple crap but my guess is that they are trying to convert to more generic parts so that people will consider then when wanting to build a custom box, or just a machine that is easaly upgradable.[right][snapback]297647[/snapback][/right]

*sigh* they are switching to intel chips because a) ibm couldn't keep up with demand for g5 chips and b) they weren't able to solve the chips cooling problems for use in laptops

I really think its a shame. I've been using macs since the beginning and switching to intel chips seems like sacriledge. I'm just glad I didn't go out and buy a new mac yet because all the current ones will be obsolete in 2 years