Apple switching to Intel..........Discuss

[rm]

This is going to hurt us at first on the Mac side. I hope in the long run, it means faster machines at lower prices with the rock solid stability of OS X.

http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/06/06/powerpcintel/index.php

...........discuss.

Oh, Windows people, try to contain the " I told you so comments " to a minimum

[Aussie John]

I dont think Archicad uses velocity engine(aka alti vec) or 64bite coding so that is something

[Anonymous]

here it is

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

[Thomas Holm]

AA wrote:

here it is

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

AHA! A conspiracy!

(... A classic AAitem, IMHO)

No offence meant. Gave me a good smile. Thanks, Albert!

[TomWaltz]

I bet you believe JFK's killer is still employed by the CIA too.....

[Anonymous]

It may be...
I bought (5) $35.00 Jul5 calls at $3.10

[Thomas Holm]

Seriously, read this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/11/technology/11apple.html?

(update)
And this:
http://arstechnica.com/columns/mac/mac-20050608.ars/1

[stefan]

No mention if the new Intel-based Macs will be able to run Windows and if the existing Intel-PC's will be able to run OSX.

I guess it doesn't really matter for the end user: he/she still has to decide between a Mac or a PC.

I do hope that the Mac's can benefit with some speed increasement, although we were all told that the G5 would deliver that 😉

And even now the Powerbook is still using a very old G4 chipset. Compare that to PC-portables, which have a choice between several chipsets. And the portable market is surely a big part of all computer sales, so they better migrate their laptops to newer processors too.

AFAIK, ArchiCAD is compiled on CodeWarrior for the Mac-version, so they would have to switch to XCode to do that and that means a port to the gcc compiler, which might be a bit of work. Or will XCode use the intel-compiler for all of this to work?

[Aussie John]

stefan wrote:
No mention if the new Intel-based Macs will be able to run Windows and if the existing Intel-PC's will be able to run OSX.

the Macintels will probably be able to run windows-most likely via a hack. Virtual PC would run near full speed i imagine anyway.

Also they will use some sort of protection to allow OSX to run, so is unlikely any PC will be able to the same.

[Anonymous]

From what I've read, Apple won't object to (or prevent) running Windows on the Intel Macs. They will prevent running the Mac OS on a non-Appple product though. I would guess that something like VirtualPC would still be preferable most of the time to avoid having to reboot to switch OS.

[James Murray]

Thomas wrote:
AHA! A conspiracy!

Seriously, read this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/11/technology/11apple.html?

(update)
And this:
http://arstechnica.com/columns/mac/mac-20050608.ars/1

This is worth a read as well.

http://daringfireball.net/2005/06/rule_the_galaxy

Short: Focus on your strengths, sub out everything else.