Apple To Use Intel Chips?

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This was the skinny a while ago:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u ... e_intel_dc


I read in the paper today that Apple will indeed phase out it's current architecture in favour of Intel's. Rather shocking if you ask me. Especially what with the Cell chips becoming popular and already being produced by Apple's partner IBM.


EDIT:

Here's Anand's coverage of it:

http://anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2438


EDIT2:

Switching to Intel because there's "less heat generated per watt?" Apparently, AMD doesn't exist in Jobs' world.


Interesting how they're going to explain this:

http://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/


I predict this page being taken down soon. Save it for memory's sake, people.


EDIT3:

"However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac OS X on other computer makers' hardware. "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac," he said."


How long ya think that will last?

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As for EDIT 3:

http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/os/ ... 916,00.htm


Looks decent for an early developer version. I'm not sure if the last few sentences of the article are supposed to be in jest or not.

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Apple's protection to stop people from running OSX on a PC?

We’ve received some information regarding Apple's newest portable, the MacBook Pro, and with it a hidden message for would-be hackers. We were made privy to a text dump from the System Profiler of one of the new MacBooks and, naturally, couldn’t wait to sort through its contents. What we didn’t expect to see was a warning from Apple to those that would hack OS X, presumably to those wanting it to run on beige-box PCs:

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<key>_name</key>
<string>Dont Steal Mac OS X</string>
[...]
<string>Copyright (c) 2006 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved.

<string>The purpose of this Apple software is to protect Apple copyrighted
materials from unauthorized copying and use. You may not copy, modify,
reverse engineer, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense,
transfer or redistribute this file, in whole or in part. If you have
obtained a copy of this Apple software and do not have a valid license
from Apple Computer to use it, please immediately destroy or delete it
from your computer.</string>

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The most interesting part of this message? It’s placement, found in /System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext Despite being a lighthearted jab at hackers, it seems that Apple is taking the pirating of the new OSx86 seriously, since the same kext is not found in the PPC version of 10.4.4. Is this simply a hidden message for the interested parties, or is it a new tounge-in-cheek implementation of OS X’s TPM security? Details are sketchy at this point… watch this space for more news as we get it.

Taken from http://www.osx86project.org/

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Did they switch too soon?

http://news.com.com/IBM+touts+new+chipm ... g=nefd.hed

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Poems in the OS X code:

http://internetweek.cmp.com/showArticle ... =180202537

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Perhaps, eventually, Macs will just drop OS X and the "elitists" will have to look elsewhere:

http://overclockers.com/tips00924/


VIA readies its processors for them