So It’s Official: Apple Going “Intel Inside”
Today at the keynote speech from WWDC, Steve Jobs confirmed that Apple is moving off IBM PowerPC chips and will transition to Intel-based systems. The transition will happen over the next two years, and will be fully completed by WWDC ‘07. Rumors have been circulating about this for some time now, and I am quite suprised to hear that the rumors are true.
What I find even more interesting, though, was hearing Jobs say that Apple has been compiling and running OSX on Intel hardware for the past 5 years! He was even running the Keynote presentation on OSX using Intel hardware. I think it’s pretty incredible that they had the foresight to think that they might transition one day to Intel, and that they were able to keep it a secret. I guess the ability to compile on multiple platforms is one of the benefits of using a BSD-based core for OSX.
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June 6th, 2005 at 1:29 pm
People have been coming up to me all day today going “are you bummed?”. Honestly, for myself that is not why I use a mac, I use it for the OS (which is kickass) and the great HW design. I could give a shit less about the Processor. Maybe now I can get a faster powerbook!
June 6th, 2005 at 10:12 pm
They should have gone with AMD. Better technology chops, faster releases, and first with dual core chips. They will ALSO be first with multicore chips (aside from THE CELL). Intel is always catching up and pushing “marketing technologies” like centrino and “hyperthreading.” When I install a phresh AMD proc, I can PHEEL the POWER. A new intel proc, I’m all,”hey, is this machine infested with spyware?”