[Ti] Mactel powerbooks coming...when?

[Chris Olson]

On Nov 14, 2005, at 8:27 AM, Ondra Soukup wrote:
Full official Apple's support for PowerPC until 2009

Considering that new PowerPC boxes will be sold yet in 2007, and  
AppleCare coverage on those boxes will extend to at least into 2010,  
Apple has to provide full official support beyond 2009.

Further, with the (finally) recent addition of the PowerMac quad to  
Apple's high-end lineup, and nothing that can touch it on the present  
or future Intel roadmap for "power per watt", you can rest assured  
that PowerPC is going to be supported by Apple well beyond 2010.  You  
can't even match the upfront *price* of a PowerMac quad with AMD's 64- 
bit dual-core offerings, much less match it on Intel, which is more  
expensive yet.

Comparing the Intel and PowerPC roadmaps, Intel is going to have to  
pull a rabbit out of a hat in 2007 or Apple would be nuts to pull the  
PowerPC processors out of their high-end boxes and replace them with  
x86.  Especially with Intel's bottom line not looking too good as of  
late, with AMD outselling them in the last quarter.  Dell computer is  
the one and only manufacturer on the planet that uses Intel  
exclusively.  And their bottom line isn't looking too good either.   
Suppose there's a reason Dell is sporting AMD64's on their website now?

I don't believe Apple will join that fray.

If you need a PowerBook now I would buy it and not wait for the Intel- 
based machines because PowerPC is going to be around probably longer  
than Intel will.  Apple can't survive exclusively using Intel  
chipsets any more than Dell can because, for example, their Xserve  
would get literally walked on by multiple-core AMD server boxes that  
cost less than Intel/Xeon powered machines.  But that's just my opinion.
-- 
Chris

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