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

  • From: "John Willkie" <JohnWillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:17:09 -0700

you were a Mac dealer for 12 years and you now think that this is the most
hypocritical thing out of Cupertino?  You must still be under the reality
distortion field.

I'd offer up -- just as one of many choices -- that the G4 Macs with PowerPC
chips were 4x faster than an Intel chip with 4x the clock speed.  I told one
saleswoman that she must have smoked crack all night to be able to assert
that statement with a straight face.

John Willkie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Golitsis" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:24 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips


> I managed a retail store that was primarily a Mac dealer for 12 years
> and after hearing Apple beat the PowerPC drum (or rather, anti-Intel
> drum) so long and so hard, this announcement just seems like the most
> hypocritical claptrap I've heard in my lifetime.
>
> It's going mean boon or bust for Apple in the personal computer
> business.  I'm leaning toward bust.
>
>
> On 8-Jun-05, at 2:57 PM, John Willkie wrote:
>
> > 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.)
>
>
>
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