Apple Goes Intel...

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Monday 06 June 2005 22:18, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> It's bad news. I've been nauseous all day.

Same here.

> 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.

I liked Macs because they were an inexpensive way to get a Power(PC) 
box.  IBM's workstations were much more expensive...

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

IBM's stuff is starting to come down to nearly reasonable prices... I'll 
suggest their OpenPower machines:

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/openpower/hardware/710express.html

IBM seems to be the one remaining major vendor of "worthwhile" 
RISC-powered machines now, since Alpha has been getting squashed by 
HPaq for a while now.

Pat
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