Apple is going to Intel Processors!
The Creator
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 37,950
Likes: 8
From: Albany, NY
Interesting story on OSX "Marklar" from 2002: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1656622,00.asp
Administrator Alumnus
Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 26,326
Likes: 131
From: Northwest IN
Originally Posted by soopa
Interesting story on OSX "Marklar" from 2002: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1656622,00.asp
But a switch to Intel or Advanced Micro Devices Inc. processors is probably not in the cards for tomorrow's Macs, sources said. Such a move would require a massive revision of Apple's closed hardware architecture and a fundamental rethinking of its business model, which is founded on tight integration between its proprietary system software and hardware. Apple would have to also coax most of its third-party developers to rewrite their applications from the ground up in the company's Cocoa application environment. (Most major vendors have instead tuned their applications to Carbon, a set of Mac OS X-compatible APIs originally culled from the classic Mac OS and rooted in the PowerPC architecture.)
I would like to see Adobe write Photoshop in pure Cocoa... BY 2008 they may be done.
Houses Won't Depreciate?
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 6,238
Likes: 0
From: Weston, FL
Apple has a small piece of the PC market and they are not focusing on that side as much as they are with their overproced iPods. News like this give apple free marketing broadcasted by the news sites/channels, and thus continue their "successful" sale of MP3 devices IMO.
Administrator Alumnus
Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 26,326
Likes: 131
From: Northwest IN
The Creator
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 37,950
Likes: 8
From: Albany, NY
better coverage here:
http://www4.macnn.com/macnn/wwdc/05/
im in the macrumours irc channel and they're saying shit like "steve, wearing all black" ... NO SHIT
http://www4.macnn.com/macnn/wwdc/05/
im in the macrumours irc channel and they're saying shit like "steve, wearing all black" ... NO SHIT
The hair says it all
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 7,566
Likes: 0
From: Manhattan, NYC
someone at work (full of balls to the walls geeks) said one of the rumors was it was for laptop only cause of g5 in laptop issues
but i dont know how accurate that is, because for the g4 laptop's they aren't using a desktop g4 but one modified enough that it doesn't drink power
but i dont know how accurate that is, because for the g4 laptop's they aren't using a desktop g4 but one modified enough that it doesn't drink power
Cost Drivers!!!!
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 19,392
Likes: 1
From: burbs of philly
Originally Posted by soopa
better coverage here:
http://www4.macnn.com/macnn/wwdc/05/
im in the macrumours irc channel and they're saying shit like "steve, wearing all black" ... NO SHIT
http://www4.macnn.com/macnn/wwdc/05/
im in the macrumours irc channel and they're saying shit like "steve, wearing all black" ... NO SHIT
fucking idiots....baehaehaehaehahe. What next? Santa in a red suit!
too???
Administrator Alumnus
Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 26,326
Likes: 131
From: Northwest IN
Originally Posted by soopa
Developers of Panic softwafre (Unison/Transmit) say X86 compatibility is as easy as a recompile for them.
no shit... if it's true cocoa code, yes...
Why not ask Adobe that same question.
The hair says it all
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 7,566
Likes: 0
From: Manhattan, NYC
i find the choice of intel over amd unbelivably interesting
1) from an image standpoint wintel represents the opposite market from apple
2) amd's new dual core 64 bit design's seem to coincide with the g5
1) from an image standpoint wintel represents the opposite market from apple
2) amd's new dual core 64 bit design's seem to coincide with the g5