[G4] Has hell frozen over?

[Kunga]

Macintosh computers' motherboards and OS X are intimately  
interrelated and will continue to have NOTHING to do with intel/amd  
motherboards made to work with Windows and Linux.

There was an explicit explanation by Steve that OS X has ALWAYS been  
processor independent since day one and will continue to be. This  
plan is specifically about processors in two years not in the past  
and now. The RISC vs CISC "argument" still applies. I am completely  
delighted I just bought a NEW dual 2.5 G5 PPC Mac for $1999 Saturday  
at Fry's. I even love the fact it is the world's first liquid cooled  
processor system.

AMD might get involved when Apple & Intel can't keep up with demand.

k

> At 7:46 AM -0400 6/7/05, Tim Collier wrote:
>
>>
>> Next OS is going to be Leopard....I wonder if they're going to try  
>> to start selling this OS to present Windows users?  Is this going  
>> to be the beginning for Mac OS software vs. Windows?  I think so.  
>> Damn, I wish I owned some Apple stock...but alas.
>> I can only say that I am happy with Apple's decision (although  
>> when I first heard about it, I was not) and I'm looking forward to  
>> buying my first Intel based Mac.
>>
> On Jun 7, 2005, at 6:56 AM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:
>
> Why wait for a Mac with the mandatory warning label? As soon as an  
> Intel compliant version of Tiger is released, just get a Wintel  
> box, wipe the hard drive and install that version of Tiger. Since  
> the first Macintel boxes are being released in 06 and Leopard is  
> slated for 07, that means that one of the updates (10.4.5?) will be  
> the version installed on it. Of course, if you want to use Leopard,  
> you'll have to get an Intel machine from somewhere. I didn't see  
> anything about releasing both PPC & Intel versions of Leopard; they  
> were concentrating on application compatability.
>
> This decision also means that Apple's whole PPC/RISC vs Intel/CISC  
> argument is now a deadend. Perhaps Intel is going to release a  
> special premium-priced chip just for Macintoshes, that is totally  
> different from the Pentium line. Hmm, maybe AMD will come out with  
> a competing chip.