[Ti] PowerBooks with Intel processors - not!

[Chris Olson]

On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Robert Ameeti wrote:

> Ok then. Apple says it will ship Intel in the first half of 2006.  
> ThinkSecret spreads a rumor that Apple will ship Intel in January.  
> Then someone blogs that Apple can't do that. Thus, Apple has made a  
> mistake? Or is it that we are supposed to believe that the zdnet  
> blog knows what Apple is going to ship in June 2006 and thus Apple  
> again has screwed up?

RTFA again.  The article addresses why there will (probably) not be  
any Intel PowerBooks in January.  Intel, true to form, has fallen  
behind schedule on release of the processors they promised Apple when  
they suckered Apple into their marketing machine.  I've seen them do  
this with several companies in the past and I'd be glad to provide  
you a blow by blow financial analysis of what happened to those  
(previously) successful companies after falling for Intel's marketing.

Of one thing I will guarantee, and it doesn't take an analyst or  
blogger to realize it;
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.

But then, perhaps Apple needed a Mac exit strategy so they can move  
on to being what they really want to be, and something they can  
dominate - a digital media company.

-- 
Chris

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