Businessweek: "Apple has deliberated over moving away from Intel chips"

[throAU]

Seriously.... if I was a major shareholder in Apple, I'd actually want them to deliberate whether Intel chips still were the best choice. Especially if the conclusion was, repeatedly, that they were. These decisions need to be reviewed regularly. Otherwise you got locked into a "because we always did it that way" mentally. And it keeps your suppliers sharp if they know you aren't permanently locked into their solutions. "Deliberate" simply means they reviewed the pros and cons. It absolutely does not mean that they are necessarily taking any action.

That's it.


The question would have been asked - what can we can, and what do we lose?


The gains are simply not enough to justify the massive loss of all the existing x86 software out there.

Running intel binaries at native speed is a massive advantage.

 

[Che Castro]

The next iMac will have the A6 chip

 

[turtlez]

Maybe they are making their own chips like the iPhone If so they should run better right? Dual core beats quad core when made by Apple you know. The only way they could go to keep windows would be amd if i am not mistaken too.

To everyone here saying bla bla bla i am going to leave apple if they do this. Remember back in the G4/5 days. Everyone put up a **** storm when Apple was going to intel and it worked out to be a lot a lot a lot better for everyone.

 

[HurryKayne]

The next Imac ,i would be happy just been able to see it for real,
the one Apple is selling now,the 2012 one is so thin i cannot see it..its made out of thin air,
actually its a ..vision of the future.
For 2013 and beyond maybe going out of Intel could mean just this,instead of Intel chips ,Amd ones,
without losing the x86 compatibility.

 

[JayJayAbels]

The processor Apple created for the iPhone 5 is simply jaw dropping from an engineering stand point. If they can keep that up... I'm all for it.

 

[OLDCODGER]

As long as it will run Snow Leopard, they can put a chocolate chip in it for all I care.

 

[HurryKayne]

Don't think a new Os would make you run it,maybe virtualized but with many lags.X86 compatibility must stay otherwise will compromize all the software base out there,while Haswell seems really good,so why to put all this pain for stepping out from X86 having steppin out as well with PPC?It doesn't make sense but even Maps doesn't so..sadly,could be.
At that point i will step out.