[Ti] A real world comparison

[Chris Olson]

On Jun 11, 2005, at 11:59 AM, Robert Ameeti wrote:

> Can't we agree that the Dev boxes are not indicative of what Apple 
> will be shipping to consumers?

I can't.  Device, chipset, hardware drivers, etc., all have to be 
ported and optimized.  Think about people like Alchemy who have TV 
Tuner cards and such for Mac.  You simply can't pull that rug out from 
under the developers to ship some other configuration at the last 
moment.  If Apple did that you can be fairly certain the Mac platform 
would be abandon in short order.

Intel is Intel - chipsets and everything, and x86 is x86.  The 
architecture is what it is.  Apple is going to be shipping PC hardware 
with a specific set of device drivers included in Mac OS X itself for 
the hardware that comes with the boxes (built-in ethernet, WiFi, 
etc..).  There will be little difference between the dev boxes and 
production units, short of making changes that include Intel's hardware 
roadmap which the rest of the x86 world will get at the same time.
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Chris