[opendtv] Re: Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips

  • From: "John Willkie" <JohnWillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 11:57:07 -0700

If the idiots had only done this while Apple had had a shred of a chance of
gaining more than their current 2.3% slice of the new PC business, they
might have had a future -- instead of merely a legacy -- in the computer
business.

Upshot is good for me:  It seems like getting ActiveX controls and my visual
basic applications to work on Mac platforms (without me doing any
re-writing) will be a cinch for new macs in a year or so.

For mac users, it just means another backwards-incompatible upgrade.  What,
this will be the fourth?  Or merely the third? (PC users, going back 23
years, have never had a single one, at least at the hardware layer.)

John Willkie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:53 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips


> Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips
>
> By Stephen Shankland
> Story last modified Fri Jun 03 17:08:00 PDT 2005
>
> Apple Computer plans to announce Monday that it's scrapping its
> partnership with IBM and switching its computers to Intel's
> microprocessors, CNET News.com has learned.
>
> Apple has used IBM's PowerPC processors since 1994, but will begin a
> phased transition to Intel's chips, sources familiar with the
> situation said. Apple plans to move lower-end computers such as the
> Mac Mini to Intel chips in mid-2006 and higher-end models such as the
> Power Mac in mid-2007, sources said.
>
> The announcement is expected Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developer
> Conference in San Francisco, at which Chief Executive Steve Jobs is
> giving the keynote speech. The conference would be an appropriate
> venue: Changing the chips would require programmers to rewrite their
> software to take full advantage of the new processor.
>
> IBM, Intel and Apple declined to comment for this story.
>
> ...
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1006-5731398.html
>
>
>
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