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

[Adam Bass]

On Jun 7, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Scott McCulloch wrote:

> On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Richard Gilmore wrote:
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>> Will the MacTel's Pentiums be 64bit?
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> Not according to this:
> http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050607081920942
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> Which does seem disappointing, or confusing, or something to me,  
> given Apple's insistence that 64bit was an important step for OS X,  
> one of the benefits of G5s, etc. I certainly bought the argument...  
> so I'm not quite sure how to take this.
>
> Scott

Could you please quote or paraphrase what Macfixit says regarding  
this? The page you linked to is only available to Macfixit Pro  
subscribers. Macworld says they think Apple would probably not  
abandon the 64-bit architecture, and that Intel has made 64-bit chips  
(although not very successful ones as far as I know), and that Intel  
would probably make a 64-bit chip for Apple. Of course, this is  
completely based on conjecture, and there's no proof one way or the  
other that I know of. I'm curious as to how Macfixit came to the  
conclusion that Intel would not make a 64-bit chip for Apple. Are  
they just guessing. It seems like no one would know that information  
yet.

Adam
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