Author Topic: Apple With Intel Chip (Read 8468 times)

samxiao · « **on:** June 06, 2005, 06:43:07 pm »

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html

what do you guys think?

i feel upset and disappointed and unbelievable.

how they keep selling their PowerMac for another year?

BarryW · « **Reply #1 on:** June 06, 2005, 09:35:55 pm »

Why would it? It's not going to run on your pc now. It has to be an "Apple". Just because it's intel inside doesn't make it a "pc". It will still be a Mac. There will still be a boot rom on the board.

Jacknife · « **Reply #2 on:** June 07, 2005, 01:48:56 am »

I guess that Apple is wanting to harness the DRM (Digital rights management) features of the newer Intel processors/chipsets.

BarryW · « **Reply #3 on:** June 07, 2005, 02:53:32 am »

No they just want to use processors that will go faster than 2.7Ghz. Motorola let us down.

B_Lizzard · « **Reply #4 on:** June 07, 2005, 06:41:15 am »

Still, they could use the Cell processor, that, at clock speeds of 3.2 GHZ, is 4 times more powerfull than a P4 at 3.2
The Cell has a maximum clock speed of 4.6 GHZ, and of course, it's based on the POWER Architecture.

There's a nice solution for ya.Although the Cell won't come out for another year, they could wait.

samxiao · « **Reply #5 on:** June 07, 2005, 09:42:20 am »

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Still, they could use the Cell processor, that, at clock speeds of 3.2 GHZ, is 4 times more powerfull than a P4 at 3.2
The Cell has a maximum clock speed of 4.6 GHZ, and of course, it's based on the POWER Architecture.

There's a nice solution for ya.Although the Cell won't come out for another year, they could wait.
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i heard Cell is design for gaming purpose
it has no cache for general-purpose computing

BarryW · « **Reply #6 on:** June 07, 2005, 12:36:16 pm »

They have a hard enough time getting powerpc processors as it is. Now the new xbox and playstation will be eating them up just as fast of maby even faster. What's really getting me is all the other sites saying it will make them just like pc's with all the viruses and junk that goes along with windows. How's that! It's still unix in there, and it still won't be installable on a dell.

adf · « **Reply #7 on:** June 07, 2005, 02:09:52 pm »

hmmm. even with the bootrom ( I think) won't this put OSX head to head with x86 linux? interesting.....

BarryW · « **Reply #8 on:** June 07, 2005, 04:43:25 pm »

No, x86 linux is free!

freizugheit · « **Reply #9 on:** June 07, 2005, 10:46:07 pm »

Who cares what is inside the box nowadays, as long as it is user-friendly, does not cost me much, expandable and most important is that it is less vulbnerable to vrius or spyware attacks.

The main switch will be the next fight for dominance of media PC in every home.

adf · « **Reply #10 on:** June 07, 2005, 11:52:21 pm »

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hmmm. even with the bootrom ( I think) won't this put OSX head to head with x86 linux? interesting.....
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and has more software, I suspect
been fishin yet?

tg · « **Reply #11 on:** June 08, 2005, 08:22:33 am »

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What's really getting me is all the other sites saying it will make them just like pc's with all the viruses and junk that goes along with windows. How's that! It's still unix in there, and it still won't be installable on a dell.
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You are right - all of those people apparently never heard of OpenBSD which is the most secure OS out there - and it runs perfectly on x86 (which of course means that security problems on wintel are really due to horrendous job MS does with their software).

BarryW · « **Reply #12 on:** June 08, 2005, 02:31:17 pm »

Naa, fishing is waay to boring for me, that and I can't stand fish...

eji · « **Reply #13 on:** June 08, 2005, 02:38:25 pm »

I was all doom and gloom for abut 24 hours. But, really, this is an architecture switch comparable to the same advances that would have been made on the PowerPC if IBM had been able to deliver. I just got a new iMac over the weekend, and I have neither regret nor apprehension.

The only thing that worries me is the DRM on Intel chips. But there's no guarantee that Apple will incorporate this (it only works with Microsoft's Janus DRM, AFAIK) -- the company has traditionally worked in just enough DRM to appease the music companies and no more.

zbeckerd · « **Reply #14 on:** June 10, 2005, 01:50:30 am »

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