jiggie2g said:
1. Intel is not nor ever will make some stupid PPC chip it goes against everything Intel stands for. Thats like Dell shipping OSX boxes(scary
). they already have multiple road maps that go into 2007. can't say that about IBM.
Road Maps mean nothing. MS has road maps into the future and they can't even meet them. RM's are nice to show a general guideline where you are going, but influence few decisions. I know we never look at them when we buy servers. We tend to buy what the vendor reccomends/requires for their product. On the PC side, desktops are a commodity, so it doesn't matter.
2. 2006 is going to be a huge year for the Pentium M(yonah) and Pentium D as both will be low cost dual core solutions. Both will get DDR2 667-DDR2 800. Intel will have it's 802.11n chipset ready and USB 3.0. Not to mention ATI Crossfire + Nvidia SLI 2.
Peee-M is so overrated, it's not funny. I've used them and am, to say the least
underwhelmed. They run relatively cool but offer little/no performance increases in day to day work.
It will get spanked by AMD's offerings, just like all the other Intel chips do today.
3. Frankly I believe 100% that IBM is getting 2nd thoughts about it's Apple partner ship ...c'mon really whats in it for IBM. Apple gets saved and IBM gets chump change back for it's multi-billion dollor investment in the PPC970. Apple simply doesn't sell the volume that is required for IBM to consider it worth wild not when u got Sony , M$ and Nintendo trowing money at them for chips.
What's in this for Intel too? Nothing much I can see - Apple has the same problem with Intel that they do with IBM. AMD would make much more sense as it would be a relatively huge increase for them.
4.A Dual boot WIndos OSX machine would Rule. If Apple want to capitalize on M$ delays with Longhorn they better do it ASAP b4 M$ gets back on its feet or Linux becomes a real threat. They will never get a better chance then now. I hear Longhorn may not even ship till Spring 2007 now.
You're forgetting M$'s ace in the hole - Office. If this were to happen watch:
1) Office for Mac disappear
2) Office for PC having a "service Pack" that disables the ability to run on Apple's hardware (They did this before with Windows on DR-DOS.)
We won't even discuss how LongDump could be made to cripple Apple's machines.
Most of this was tried with BeOS a couple years ago with 1 vendor (Toshiba, IIRC) producing dual boot laptops. On first boot, you could pick to load either Be or Win. MS found out and yanked their OEM license for Windows. BeOS suddenly disappeared.
5. Why Intel Over AMD ? Simple from a fanboys perspective Intel is on the ropes but from a busines stand point they still own over 87% of the CPU market. They have Unlimited Manufaturing resources , they have the Perfect Mobile CPU and a cheap Dual Core Solution. A company like AMD is simple not big enough to Supply Apple at the rediculious rate Jobs will demand plus supply the rest of the Industry. Look at Dell , Dell wants shiny new Pentium whatever , Intel sends it to them Limited quantity or not ASAP , no questions asked .. that's Chipzilla. They do it cuz they can. Try that with IBM or AMD. Intel Spent over 2 billion dollors on just marketing the Pentium 4 and P-M. While AMD only had 200million to blow why spend all that money ,cuz they can. thats why Apple chose Intel.
But AMD's CPU's are generally cheaper, more reliable, and
FASTER than Intel. It's been going on for years. Not to mention, Intel is the king of Paper Launches. Look at the Pee4 Emergency Edition - launch it on paper, ship it a couple months later.
No resources are unlimited and Intel has been had its own yeild issues in the past along with the rest of the industry.
A partnership with AMD would make the most sense - the best chips, the best performance and lower cost.
6. How long do u think Intel is gonna stay down and let AMD pound them. this crap heppened b4 with the PIII , it was dying and getting killed by original T-Bird Athlon. Then Bam comes the P4 and it's bye bye Athlon and Athlon XP.
Have you been on Earth long? The Athlon killed the P3 and P4 back in the day. The P4's launch was a joke as it even got spanked by a P3. In recent iterations, the P4 has been better, but it still has a hard time keeping pace with the Athlons and AMD 64's. That's a fact.
On the Server side, the Opteron has been a great contender and has spanked Xeons at many things, especially things like database serving.
Intel has few compelling and fast chips - the Peee-M is a decent design (based off the P3 core) - Apple would be better served by using AMD. Intel never really made compelling chips - AMD was always right there building them faster and cheaper -
AMD 486's were faster than Intel 486s
K5 was faster than Pentium (except floating point)
K6/k62 was faster than P2 (except floating point, helped by 3D-NOW!)
Athlon spanked P3/P4 hard
Opteron spanks Xeon
I could go on and on - Intel hasn't even been in the game as long as some of the other players - TI, IIRC made the first Microprocessor, AMD has been around as long as (if not longer than) Intel (and fabbed early 8088/8086's for Intel in the beginning), IBM has been doing this forever, etc.
Nice try, though. I suggest reading up on some computer history.
