[Ti] like hell freezing over ?

[themacuser]

It's probably not true. This rumour has been circulating fodr ages in 
various forms, I remember it a few years ago, and a few years before 
that. The only part confirmed is that Apple wants intel chips for their 
machines. It was NOT specified whether these were CPUs, network cards , 
IDE controllers, WiFi cards...
Everyone just assumed CPU.
Here are some more plausable explanations:
1. Apple wants WiMax support in their machines
2. Apple is sick of Broadcom and the stupid driver thing...
3. Apple is releasing a PDA which uses an Intel XScale CPU (like most 
PDAs on the market now)
4. Apple is releasing a video iPod which uses an Intel XScale CPU
5. Apple is planning to put an X86 daughtercard on the G5s to speed up 
Virtual PC as it is very slow and won't even run on G5s...

There's 5 more plausible ones than Apple is abandoning IBM...
On 05/06/2005, at 08:45, Alex Wichman wrote:

> I doubt it's true...the hassle of re-writing apps for x86 would be
> even worse than the initial move to OS X...
>
> ~ Alex Wichman
>
> On 6/4/05, Henry Kalir <kalirhe at umdnj.edu> wrote:
>>  Dr Trevor J. Hutley wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>         Steve Jobs is switching the Macintosh to Intel hardware,
>>         with an announcement due Monday in the WWDC 2005 keynote
>>
>>
>> I can hardly believe what I am reading.
>> Does anyone have any confirmation that such an incredible transition 
>> is
>> going to occur?
>>
>>
>> regards,  Trevor IF it's true - makes perfect sense to me. We've 
>> already
>> done away with those ridiculously expensive SCSI drives, we're using 
>> regular
>> RAM chips and ...are none the worse. If we can now use Intel chips or 
>> AMD
>> chips - there will likely be a great expansion in the # of Mac OS 
>> users and
>> hence - an increase in the # of applications either written or ported 
>> to the
>> Mac OS.
>>
>>  The only thing which surprises me is...that (again, IF this is 
>> indeed true)
>> this idea has taken so long to reach the geniuses in Cupertino.
>>
>>  I would guess that the iPod's success has finally convinced them of 
>> this.
>>
>>  Best,
>>
>>  Henry
>>
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