[X4U] Apple's move to Intel 64 bit?

[Art Amolsch]

People can analyze this to death, but I'm recommending
Macs to friends and planning to buy another G5 this
summer. Macs are still the best machines on the market
and will be for at least a couple of years, maybe more.

Art Amolsch
G4 Quicksilver 867. 1.25GV SDRAM
Tiger 10.4.1


On Jun 7, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Richard Gilmore wrote:

> So maybe buying a G5 PPC will still be a better option in the  
> medium term?
>
> I thought the performance increase from 32 to 64 bit would negate  
> any clock
> speed advantage Intel has?
>
>
> On 7/6/05 12:35 PM, "James Jones" <jsjones at mac.com> wrote:
>
>
>> This isn't surprising, for the moment, since the first Intel models
>> will be replacing G4s, not G5s (and 64-bit Intel chips will be
>> neither cheap, nor plentiful for at least another 12 to 18 months).
>> The Apple roadmap keeps 64-bit class machines on PPC until 2007.
>>
>> On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:23 AM, Scott McCulloch wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Richard Gilmore wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Will the MacTel's Pentiums be 64bit?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not according to this:
>>> http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050607081920942
>>>
>>> Which does seem disappointing, or confusing, or something to me,
>>> given Apple's insistence that 64bit was an important step for OS X,
>>> one of the benefits of G5s, etc. I certainly bought the argument...
>>> so I'm not quite sure how to take this.
>>>
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