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the RISC processor still and for a while will kick Intel's but....not sure what the techie logic is, but I know there's alot behind the scenes.
maybe it'sthe "anti copying" technology in the new Intel.
That anti-copying technology is going to be busted anyhow. You watch. A computer is nothing BUT a copy machine.
I think the big problems were:
1) Heat. The PowerPC is to hot to put in a Powerbook - which is a real money maker for Apple.
2) Battery life - The PowerPC eats batteries like a little kid eats halloween candy.
3) Speed. He can't get a G5 into Powerbooks, so he is stuck hawking G4 powerbooks.
Now, given that the big money maker these days are notebooks, which are very dependent on heat, battery life, and speed - it's a no brainer.
Are Apples all of a sudden going to become Window's clones? Oh hell no. Apple isn't even going to go and stick Phenoix BIOS (or it's derivatives) in their machines. Without that you can't really boot Windows conveniently.
Going with Intel processor's might make writing device drivers a little more straight forward. Let's face it, there are few PowerPC assembly language programmers out there compared to those who know Intel's instruction sets.
Add OS X is based on open source (BSD UNIX) so I am laying odds they are hoping for a plethora of device drivers for all those goodies running on windows to show up on OS X (at least by the open source crowd.)
Mach being a microkernal - something quite flexible - and fun for hard core programmers compared to the monolithic kernal - I would bet there will be somethings showing up out there if all it takes is a few doodles on a driver and a recompile and boom - OS X compatible hardware.
Windows is not Intel. Remember that at a time Windows also ran on Alpha microprocessors.
I read how people complain now OS X is going to be victim of viruses because of Intel. No wonder Intel wants to be associated with Apple! Viruses are trouble makers at the operating system level, not the hardware level (at least so far!) One doesn't hear so much about SCO UNIX, Linux, Free BSD/NetBSD users complaining about Intel and it's propensity for viruses.
This could turn out really good for Apple. Between using the gcc compiler and XCode getting better at every release (and especially fat binaries) I think Apple is in for a windfall.



As far as I can tell, I'll finally be able to purchase either an iBook or a PowerBook which can run Mac OS X, Linux and Windows XP Pro, all on one computer system. What I've read so far indicated one of the Apple execs has stated Apple isn't going to do anything to preclude running Windows on the new Apple/Intel hardware.
PhaedrusZ
Couldn't care less. They buy them, they fuck up, i fix them. I'd RATHER folk buy shit that fucks up. That way i get paid.
Truth is...THAT capability (Mac and Win...maybe Linux on one box) was there on the first beta version of OSX and it was removed...maybe technical, more likely a legal issueOriginally Posted by PhaedrusZ
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