 |
 |
 |
|
Apple on Intel |
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
||
|
|
This Entry: Date: 2005-06-09 Time: 17:59 Comments: 1 Return To: Recent Entries | |||
|
|
|
||
| ||||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Elsewhere:
Archive: • Aug 2008 (2) • Jul 2008 (2) • Jun 2008 (4) • Apr 2008 (2) • Mar 2008 (2) • Feb 2008 (2) • Jan 2008 (4) • Dec 2007 (2) • Nov 2007 (4) • Oct 2007 (1) • Sep 2007 (6) • Aug 2007 (4) • Jul 2007 (3) • Jun 2007 (2) • May 2007 (2) • Apr 2007 (4) • Mar 2007 (2) • Feb 2007 (4) • Jan 2007 (4) • Dec 2006 (4) • Nov 2006 (24) • Oct 2006 (3) • Sep 2006 (1) • Aug 2006 (2) • Jul 2006 (3) • Jun 2006 (6) • May 2006 (5) • Apr 2006 (5) • Mar 2006 (1) • Feb 2006 (8) • Jan 2006 (11) • Dec 2005 (8) • Nov 2005 (12) • Oct 2005 (10) • Sep 2005 (18) • Aug 2005 (8) • Jul 2005 (10) • Jun 2005 (14) • May 2005 (8) • Apr 2005 (10) • Mar 2005 (14) • Feb 2005 (12) • Jan 2005 (12) • Dec 2004 (9) • Nov 2004 (18) • Oct 2004 (13) • Sep 2004 (12) • Aug 2004 (16) • Jul 2004 (6) • Jun 2004 (10) • May 2004 (8) • Apr 2004 (8) • Mar 2004 (27) • Feb 2004 (19) • Jan 2004 (8) • Dec 2003 (10) • Nov 2003 (18) Random Entry Others: • Jen • Keltie • On LiveJournal |
|||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
Apple on IntelI am at Apple’s developer conference in San Francisco this week. Of course, the big announcement of the week is that Apple is going to transition away from IBM’s Power PC processor line and move to Intel’s microprocessors (the same ones that generally run Windows). While here I’ve been scanning Google News and it seems that a lot of pundits out there are venting a lot of hot air about this. I have to say — from the point of view of someone at the conference — this issue seems to be a bit overblown! I think that IBM has not been able to deliver. We’ve been waiting for a 3 GHz G5 processor for two years now. Did IBM really think Steve was going to stand up at the keynote and apologize again? Plus, the G5 processors we’re seeing are still way too hot to put into a laptop. The G5 server requires eight fans, and the dual processors feature liquid cooling. You’re not going to want to cart those babies around too much. Now most readers know that I came to Apple’s world through the NeXT world. Apple’s takeover of NeXT was truly a reverse takeover. NeXT’s CEO returned to head Apple, and the main technical team at NeXT took over the Apple positions. Apple’s technologies are NeXT technologies or NeXT-inheritors. What people don’t seem to remember is that NeXT’s OpenStep technologies ran on four platforms: Motorola m68k, Intel i386, Sun Sparc and HP PA-Risc. That worked boringly well, and all the operating system tools to support Apple has survived because they could convince a few people that their computers are better than Dell’s. Their computers are no longer much better than Dell’s from a performance perspective and the only way to resolve that issue is to get off the chips that are slowing them down. As for other definitions of the word better, well Apple will likely be shipping computers that look identical to today’s machines except with custom Apple-designed motherboards that happen to feature Intel processors. Few buyers will know and fewer will care that the technology inside is different from last week. I do not believe Apple will let their OS run on crummy off the shelf machines, so Apple will continue to be a leader in design and great hardware. So, no worries!
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
Add your comment... |
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||||
