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Monday, June 06, 2005

HA! Oh, now this is funny! Apple is going to switch to Intel CPUs

Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006

I’m not joking here folks.  There were rumors last week that Apple would announce they were switching to Intel CPUs.  It’s been said before in the past and Apple always said it was B.S. so I like many figured it was just another round of that.

However, Apple had a press confrence today and Steve Jobs said they would be switching to Intel hardware.  This is good stuff people.  When the new G5 PowerPC cpus came out for the Mac Apple made all these claims about their systems being “super computers” and so much better than Intel based systems.  Now they’re claiming Intel will be better!  That’s rich man!

The basic plan is to a slow conversion.  First lower end systems in ‘06 and by ‘07 the high end boxes will be Intel too.  Now the big news is they’ve been secretly maintaining dual versions of OS X.  PPC and x86 side by side for some time now.  It’s apparent that they probabbly finally realized that PPC while a powerful and advanced system is basically dead in the water thanks to IBM.  Where as x86 cpus are growing faster and more powerful all the time.  If they want to keep the Macs in the game as far as power is concerned Intel is the way to go.

You can read the official statement here:
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html

Posted by abarber on 06/06/2005 at 09:38 PM
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I’m kind of disappointed that Jobs chose Intel over AMD.  However, from an economical stand point choosing Intel ain’t a bad decision overall.

Maybe we can run Mac OS on AMD and Intel chips in the future.

Posted by Dave  on  06/08/2005  at  01:15 AM

 

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