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

[T.L. Miller]

On 6/7/05, at 1:12 PM, Ted Burton, <egburton at cableone.net> said:

>Jobs spoke of the future path as offering wildly superior performance 
>per watt, rather than the present. He spoke of the "Leopard" 
>operating system that it seems will become available at the time of 
>the introduce of Mactel boxes.  He spoke of a year from now for 
>introduction and two years from now for completion of transition. Two 
>years in chip design and production is a very long time.

Leopard is at the end of 2006. The first Mactels will be in about a year. 

>Also Jobs is legendary for playing close to the chest. The box he was 
>using on stage, an iMac, was running MacOS X 10.4 Tiger on a Pentium 
>4. of 3 or 4 point something gHz ...  In short, it was working just 
>great, put my little Mac mini to shame for screen drawing.
>
>In short, it is way too soon to say there'd not be 64 width, and I 
>wouldn't exclude 128 for that matter <G>.

Steve seems to enjoy pleasant surprises. The move to OS X was much less
painful than it looked initially. We will likely be pleasantly surprised
again.