Apple switching to use x86 based intel processors!!

[Don Seer]

roll on the apple PC! 

http://www.mediacenterpcworld.com/news/398

[-Euthanasia-]

my heart will forever belong to celeron

[The Watcher]

not much is going to change.. major points of it are

- developers get a 'developer intel-mac' in 2 weeks
- every version of mac osx for the past 5 years has been built on intel & ppc (in secret)
- new apple mac's (built on intel) will be able to run windows & mac osx, but mac osx will only run on apple hardware
- most software is platform independant
- they want to have this complete by 2007

going to x86 introduces a whole new ballgame though, being that x86 is vulnerable to things like stack overflows, where as ppc isnt etc.. will be an interesting 2 years

[Don Seer]

the stack overflow thing is nothing to with with x86, its to do with the operating systems exception handling.

e.g. linux runs on x86 but doesnt have the overflow problems.

since mac os is now already built upon a unix base it wont be too hard to port across at all.


this is gonna mean possibly that more mac graphics cards etc are gonna be hardware compatible with PC's (provided drivers are made).

this should drive costs down for us end users for some things like that

[Jip]

geeks

macs are for losers

everyone knows that! 

[Ozir]

It seems like the right move for the long run.

[Don Seer]

intel must be laughing their asses off..

AMD would be in for a piece of the action too..

some PC gfx card manufacturers had already made a few inroads to mac land so this is good for everyone all round

their may be some "format wars" over media and the like.. but overall it'll be coo for consumers

[Rampant]

this is huge for intel

[Da WCC Hopar!]

my heart will forever belong to celeron

lol u stick wit celeront then

[Sikotic™]

Sell outs!

[Low Key]

I will never buy a Mac until I need it for music or videos. I don't like the OS. I'd rather just buy a computer with Windows already installed.

[.:TimeLock:.]

ain't that some shit.... i can see all the mac fanatics tucking there tails now lol

[Ozir]

ain't that some shit.... i can see all the mac fanatics tucking there tails now lol

tucking tails?

It's the processor we are talking about... not the OS.  If Apple came out and said they were abandoning the OS, then I'd be tucking my tail.  Apple is about software and design... they've never handled their own chips (maybe way back in the day, but definitely not for the last 15 years or so).

[-Euthanasia-]

will this make my hard-drive based portable digital music player's battery last longer?

[Don Seer]

^ no