{"id":3328,"date":"2005-06-06T13:25:13","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T21:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/06\/apple-goes-intel\/"},"modified":"2005-06-06T13:25:13","modified_gmt":"2005-06-06T21:25:13","slug":"apple-goes-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/06\/apple-goes-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple goes Intel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThis is really hilarious news:<\/a><\/p>\n

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 5 – Steven P. Jobs is preparing to take an unprecedented gamble by abandoning Apple Computer’s 14-year commitment to chips developed by I.B.M. and Motorola in favor of Intel processors for his Macintosh computers, industry executives informed of the decision said Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So much for the claims that PowerPC offers more bang for the buck than Intel.<\/p>\n

We don’t know yet if this means that Apple will build a straight-up PC clone capable of running Windows and Linux, but if they so something short of that it will be stupid. And if they do build a real clone and port OS X to it, they’ll have a software platform capable of challenging Microsoft. They won’t win, of course, but the battle will be fun to watch.<\/p>\n

H\/T John Cole.<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE: It’s official, Jobs announced it today and gave a demo. The reaction was interesting:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gasps of concern went out at the developer conference when Jobs first mentioned the switch, as many Apple fans have long relished their non-Wintel status. The developers will be charged with doing most of the work to shed Apple software from the PowerPC architecture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Heh heh heh. Apple apparently wants to get out of the PC hardware business and focus on OS X and iPods. More power to them.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Here’s a bit about Apple’s rationale<\/a>; it’s not what you might think.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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