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'Intel Based Mac' Rumor Roundup...
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The way I see it... Intel is the next logical step for Apple... let's recap!
1. Apple sticks with Motorola who can't seem to fab their way out of a paper bag.. Apple Powermacs become pathetic.
2. Apple chooses IBM's 970... but they hit a wall, fail to provide, and promises never show up.... Powermacs get water cooled, but are still.. quite pathetic.
3. Apple chooses x86 via Intel... who is clearly losing the dual core war to AMD. Powermac users can still look over the fence and long for a chip/machine that is clearly superior... the powermac is still pathetic.
Oh yeh... you can put money on this one! Intel.
1. Apple sticks with Motorola who can't seem to fab their way out of a paper bag.. Apple Powermacs become pathetic.
2. Apple chooses IBM's 970... but they hit a wall, fail to provide, and promises never show up.... Powermacs get water cooled, but are still.. quite pathetic.
3. Apple chooses x86 via Intel... who is clearly losing the dual core war to AMD. Powermac users can still look over the fence and long for a chip/machine that is clearly superior... the powermac is still pathetic.
Oh yeh... you can put money on this one! Intel.
I think you missed my point. Apple uses Fairplay to protect Sony's (and others') music. Would Apple trust Fairplay to protect their own software?Yvan256 said:
(Not that we necessarily want our software getting iron-clad copy protection)
Greetings from Marklar!
Personally, I'm excited to see Marklar run on an x86. I'm curious to see if its much faster on some decent hardware, or slower due to the hardware differences.
Don't tell me nobody else noticed the OSX x86 version is named after the aliens on a Southpark commercial. I had a good laugh when I saw that, programmers are a whacked bunch
Anyhow, when Steve announces Marklar tomorrow, I hope all the PPC nerds brought a clean pair of marklar so they'll have something to change into after they marklar themselves!
I was miffed when I first read about the Intel rumor, but, after thinking about it, I could care less. I just want a faster system with much better battery life ASAP. As long as its good quality, I could care less.
Don't be foolish enough to think that Apple would bag the current powerbooks for "Intel's crap." A kid that went to my rival high school that I "hated", ended up being one of my best friends after high school. Apple wouldn't consider it unless they knew it would provide a quick fix to shipping high performance systems. I'm excited to see what they have in the works. Forget the fact that its INTEL.
Personally, I'm excited to see Marklar run on an x86. I'm curious to see if its much faster on some decent hardware, or slower due to the hardware differences.
Don't tell me nobody else noticed the OSX x86 version is named after the aliens on a Southpark commercial. I had a good laugh when I saw that, programmers are a whacked bunch
Anyhow, when Steve announces Marklar tomorrow, I hope all the PPC nerds brought a clean pair of marklar so they'll have something to change into after they marklar themselves!
I was miffed when I first read about the Intel rumor, but, after thinking about it, I could care less. I just want a faster system with much better battery life ASAP. As long as its good quality, I could care less.
Don't be foolish enough to think that Apple would bag the current powerbooks for "Intel's crap." A kid that went to my rival high school that I "hated", ended up being one of my best friends after high school. Apple wouldn't consider it unless they knew it would provide a quick fix to shipping high performance systems. I'm excited to see what they have in the works. Forget the fact that its INTEL.
Could Steve be getting ready to strike the fatal blow to the Microsoft dragon?
I think this is a real possibility. We're all thinking of QuickTransit in terms of running PPC OS X programs on the Intel machines...but hold on let's just re-examine what Wired had to say about QuickTransit again:
Is it not possible then that these QuickTransit enabled computers could also theoretically run any program written for MS Windows ever with no performance hit natively in OS X?
QuickTransit is starting to sound like the most beautiful piece of software engineering in the history of mankind. This is it folks, the final battle against Microsoft will commence tomorrow. Begun this Intel war has.
I think this is a real possibility. We're all thinking of QuickTransit in terms of running PPC OS X programs on the Intel machines...but hold on let's just re-examine what Wired had to say about QuickTransit again:
Is it not possible then that these QuickTransit enabled computers could also theoretically run any program written for MS Windows ever with no performance hit natively in OS X?
QuickTransit is starting to sound like the most beautiful piece of software engineering in the history of mankind. This is it folks, the final battle against Microsoft will commence tomorrow. Begun this Intel war has.
You do realise this comes from the days where someone in Sydney didn't read the NY Times. Or someone in SanFrancisco wants to read the news but doesn't want to buy 6 different papers from different cities or countries to get various articles.Apple said:
The net changes things. Simplest of these is ... why subscribe to the NY Times if you can go to "The Australian" to read the same article for free?
Yvan256 said:
Man, you have nothing but yourself to blame for the lack of "Mac feel". I have a Apple Mac Mini, Apple 15" LCD, Apple Wireless mouse and Keyboard, Brother Laser, Firewire drives, and Firewire audio interface. Couldn't be more Mac happy if Intel and Windows were to disappear from the world tomorrow.
what if....
what if it is true and Apple and INtel have been working on this for years...Steve comes out and says.... here is the new version of osx..for the pc
now every pc can switch to osx pc version...so long windows....
and in the intel mac box...osx will magicaly be able to run any osx and pc app in the osx gui...
everyone switches to osx
what if it is true and Apple and INtel have been working on this for years...Steve comes out and says.... here is the new version of osx..for the pc
now every pc can switch to osx pc version...so long windows....
and in the intel mac box...osx will magicaly be able to run any osx and pc app in the osx gui...
everyone switches to osx
....apple likes keeping things a secret.......apple also has people pretty high ranking in there ocmpany that leak things out......at least one person.....Jobs doesn;t like that......the way those people are singled out is you tell them things u dont tell anyone else and see if it gets published.......the bigger the thing......the most sure fire way to get the person to sel out on it.........we know apple has intel machines in the lab that they probly have OSX running on as a far back if PPC ever has some serious issues.........so this ould all be fabricated to flush someone out.......who knows though....
rockandrule said:
As with previous years, Arn will most likely close the Forums and revert to the low-bandwidth version of MacRumors with live text updates. The keynote will not be broadcast live, but will be available on Apple's site shortly after it has been completed.
Sorry, I am not familiar with the way that it has ran in the past. So, pretty much we know what happens as it happens? (Slightly after)
StkhlmSyndrm23 said:Is it not possible then that these QuickTransit enabled computers could also theoretically run any program written for MS Windows ever with no performance hit natively in OS X?
I dont think this is what QuickTransit is really built for, but I could be wrong. It would have to map every single OS function call in Windows to an equivalent OS X call, if one even exists...it seems like too much for a chip to do.
In any case, Apple will never make it so that you can run a Windows app inside of OS X (without emulating the entirety of Windows as a seperate program a la Virtual PC), because the differences in user interface philosophies would cause a horrible mish-mash of interface behaviors which would be a usability mess.
EDIT: I should add that I agree that QuickTransit will probably be a part of Apples transition to Intel, and that it is a fantastic piece of technology. However I think they will just use it to allow OS X PPC apps to run on OS X Intel.
rockandrule said:
No need to apologize, it was a completely fair question. Yes, the text updates are a little delayed of course, but they come pretty promptly. And there's no need to refresh your screen, it does it automatically.
To get a better idea, here's the way the site operated for WWDC 2004.
iMeowbot said:
Hmm that is strange, why bother changing your front page a day befor WWDC when you know you'll have to change it?
Thank you very much. That seems to be a pretty awesome way to run things. We need some more people like you around here.
admanimal said:
Ah yes, my apologies, I stand corrected. When I checked the site after his original post it was the same for me, now I see the new Dashboard screen. Cool.
Too bad it will only be the main screen on Apple.com for a few more hours until the keynote revelations take over.