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Intel macs since 1999?? VIDEO

I thought that Steve mentioned back in the WWDC '05 keynote when he announced the switch that they had had secret Intel machines since the advent of OS X as a backup in case their relationship with IBM/Motorola turned sour and they needed to switch. This way, it wouldn't take as much time and energy to do the switch because they had a backup plan.

But no, they were top-secret and were only there as an "if hell freezes over" scenario. Therefore, they never got out to most of Apple management, let alone the public.
 
By Intel he means IBM.

d_and_n5000 said:
I thought that Steve mentioned back in the WWDC '05 keynote when he announced the switch that they had had secret Intel machines since the advent of OS X as a backup in case their relationship with IBM/Motorola turned sour and they needed to switch. This way, it wouldn't take as much time and energy to do the switch because they had a backup plan.
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That isn't what this video is referencing.
 
d_and_n5000 said:
I thought that Steve mentioned back in the WWDC '05 keynote when he announced the switch that they had had secret Intel machines since the advent of OS X as a backup in case their relationship with IBM/Motorola turned sour and they needed to switch. This way, it wouldn't take as much time and energy to do the switch because they had a backup plan.

But no, they were top-secret and were only there as an "if hell freezes over" scenario. Therefore, they never got out to most of Apple management, let alone the public.
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I heard this too from some people working in Apple who'd seen a system running OSX on Intel processors. This was back when OSX was still in beta. I'd say most of the time it took to bring out the Intel Mac's was just writing drivers for the new hardware and debugging the software that had already been running in a semi-stable form for years.
 
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