I really hope you stop using macs and switch to windows, really i do. One less moron..
Let me state a couple things for the record.
1. I recently purchased a quad g5
2. I own about 4 different models of dual processo g5, maxed out
3. I have an official developer (intel) transition kit.
4. I have a dual processor amd athlon dual core 64bit 2.4ghz
5. I have a single amd processor
6. I have single intel 3.73ghz
7. I have a dual core "test kit" (yes that's right) on loan from Intel
All of them except the first 2 on my list have one thing in common. Do you know what that is? They are fast. VERY fast. I've test os x on them (yes i'm not supposed to...), and OS X without proper drivers and it runs faster on all the x86 systems than it does on any motorola ibm chip.
Sorry but it's time for powerpc to die. it's a great chip, especially for that home broadband router, or my wireless acess point. but for a computer? sorry. it's time.
Apple recognizes something you can not, that the powerpc is beginning to suck. I've never been impressed with my mac, beachball city. for the first time os x feels really fast, and this is on a hacked up x86...
I can't wait for the transition to happen so we get some good speeds and chips finally. If you were to use an intel box you wouldn't even know, except for the fact that you'd be like "wow this powerpc is really fast, .. blah blah" then i'd politely let you know it's an intel dev kit.
Don't be an idiot.
NickCharles said:
This is a good thing, but the fact that Intel x86 chips will be in Macs STINKS, and always will. I would love it if only the portables went to x86 while PowerMacs and iMacs could stay PPC. As long as all software is written in Univeral Binaries, this could be possible.
x86 stinks, it always has, and always will. I'll never fully accept x86 chips in a Mac. x86 needs to die, right along with Windows. I also find it quite funny that suddenly so many in the Mac community are suddenly embracing x86 or claiming they "never had a problem with x86". Bullcrap. I guess these people feel they have no choice. I may someday have to have a Mac with a crapp-ass x86 processor in it, with no open firmware and no Altivec, but I won't like it; I'll always hate it. Always.