[Ti] PowerBooks with Intel processors - not!

kalirhe at umdnj.edu kalirhe at umdnj.edu
Tue Dec 6 08:34:28 PST 2005


You're probably right there!

I'm totally confused by Chris' inconsistencies (PPC is Great/Intel is
Bad/Apple is making a Mistake/AMD is Great/My Company is moving to
Windows).

So - I'd like to second Shawn King's suggestion that we all simply wait for
reality to play out (= wait for those MacIntels to come out and then see).

Best,

Henry

Quoting Ross Winn <ross.winn at gmail.com>:

> I think that is an incredibly closed minded attitude. People have been
> crying doom and gloom for the mac since I bought my first mac in 1990,
> and probably before then as well.
> 
> I would also say that anyone who thinks that OS X is going to have
> more overhead than Windows XP on a comparable processor is probably
> smoking crack.
> 
> 
> --
> Ross Winn
> ross.winn at gmail.com
> 
> 
> On 12/6/05, T.L. Miller <tlmiller at mac.com> wrote:
> > On 12/6/05, at 8:16 AM, Chris Olson chris.olson at astcomm.net said:
> >
> > >If OS X on Intel can't match the performance of Windows/Linux on the
> > >same hardware, and has to live under a cloud of hindered performance
> > >on Intel while Windows/Linux benchmarks better on AMD, it's all over
> > >but the crying for the Mac.
> >
> > Or maybe those apps that are much faster on on the other OSes will
> > simply run on those OSes on the Mactel machines.
> >
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