Apple Goes Intel...

[9000 VAX]

On 6/6/05, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
> (OT added)
> 
> > I don't know if this is bad news or even worse news, but for those who
> > haven't heard yet:
> >      http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html
> 
> It's bad news. I've been nauseous all day.
> 
> I think by removing the last piece of "unique" out of modern Macs -- the PPC
> CPU -- Apple has just announced they're in the PC business. Once VPC gets to
> the point where Windows apps are no longer second class citizens in the Mac
> world (like they are under VPC now), and run at or near full speed, Macintosh
> will cease to be relevant because who would want to write a Mac app when a
> Win app will do? This is the same thing that killed OS/2.

Apple did not say that it would use the PC architecture. Apple
probably will embed something (PROM?) in the computer such that others
can not make compatible new Macs.

vax, 9000

> 
> I'll buy a G5 before they disappear, and then find some new platform to
> colonize.
> 
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