Apple Throws caution to the wind, Goes with Intel.
Steve Jobs today announced that they were dumping IBM as there Micro-Processor supplier after any number of production and milestone delays. (Can anyone say 3Ghz.)
They will instead be using Intel microprocessors and by this time next year, will have there first Intel powered machines to market. Apple previewed a version of Tiger, running on an Intel-based Mac to the over 3,800 developers in the keynote and confirmed rumours of a division that had been maintaining mac OSX for x86 architecture for the last 5 years in parallel to the official ppc release.
“Mac OS X has been living a secret double life for the past five years” (Marklar).
The design for Mac OS X has always been processor independent and cross-platform capable by design. The technology to let existing PowerPC applications run on Intel is named Rosetta and performs dynamic translation transparent to users.
Interesting times ahead for the Mac or so it would seem!
June 8th, 2005 at 2:46 am
To think.. windows XP running on a new iBook *shudder* :P
You really need to steer ravi towards your site.. he has alot of emotions boiled up about Mac. lol