[Ti] Screen Savers last night...

[Flanders, Camron Brent]

To all who think this is a April Fools Joke.  it isn't, this rumor has 
been out there for weeks.  I heard about it on another list a while 
back.  Also, OSX would not run on just any p4, xeon, itanium, or athlon 
chip.  The new itanium would be optimized and tweaked so that only that 
chip would run osx.  I am not sure they would pass up on the 970, which 
is based on the power4 core, for a few reaons:  1. Heat, the 970 runs 
MUCH MUCH cooler than any intel chip could dream of.  2.  Cost, the new 
itanium is between 3 and 4 thousand dollars apiece.  3.  64 AND 32 bit 
native processing.  the itanium sacrifices a small amount of speed on 
32 bit programs.  4.  the 970 can be used in not only dual processor 
arrangments but also quad, and if you want to get ridiculous, even more 
multiples of 2.  How cool would it be to one day have a way to just buy 
another processor instead of always just buying ram?  5.  The 970 can 
handle 4 gigs of physical RAM.
If apple passes on this chip then apple will surely have a good reason, 
and at this point i dont think that the itanium is the way to go.


Camron


On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 01:30  PM, Henry Kalir wrote:

> Dear John,
>
> I note this posting carries an "April 1" date. Guess I'll have to wait 
> and
> see if it gets reposted tomorrow...;-)
>
> Best,
>
> Henry
>
>
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, John Griffin wrote:
>
>> An interesting exchange between Leo and Patrick's stand-in last night.
>> Apparently they have some inside info that seems to imply that Macs 
>> will
>> soon be sporting Intel processors. Jobs was the keynote speaker at a 
>> recent
>> Intel conference and seemed quite chummy with the execs there. 
>> Conjecture by
>> Leo was that within 6 to 8 months there will be a platform release 
>> with
>> Intel chips, either for dual booting (with PowerPCs still aboard) or 
>> as the
>> sole processor, with the ROMs set up to accommodate Pentium/OS X
>> compatibility.
>>
>> Interesting stuff, but what happened to IBM's G4 970. And for that 
>> matter
>> the G5?
>>
>> jg
>>
>
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