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  It's True! Jobs Switches to Intel: A Review of the WWDC 05 Keynote
Subject:   Intel umm..
Date:   2005-06-07 16:55:20
From:   Oyku
I keep asking myself the following questions.


1. Although I understand why Intel and not AMD from an enterprise and long term point of view, I wonder if guys at Seattle happy that they have a (theoretical) chance to hit Apple and hit hard on the same platform


2. Why would I go and buy a Pentium machine? I did not pay +xx% for the operating system only? How different will it be? Why wouldn't I settle to an AMD64 system.


3. Intel has lost market share to AMD in 64bit. What is the point in running Mac OS X on an Intel chip rather than running Linux on an AMD Opteron.


4. I'm disappointed, unhappy and I simply do not want an Intel CPU inside my mac. I wonder if they have done research on customer reaction? OR is Apple in trouble and had to settle with Intel. As Jobs said "a secret life for 5 years just in case" So this is plan B. and Apple believes they'll come over it as they did in their history twice.


5. Using a Mac for me is a preference. A mac user is not a mainstream user. Mac users feel special. So it'd have been cool to have AMD 64 and AMD Opteron rather than mainstream Pentium
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  • Intel umm..
    2005-06-08 11:44:50  NeuralizR [Reply | View]

    Did you buy a Mac specifically to have PPC inside? Not just for the OS and the company that made the machine?

    Keep in mind that if they're going to make an OS that runs on standard Intel hardware that already runs Windows, you'll be able to run it on AMD as well.

    If you can't do that and it only runs on Apple made Intel Mac systems, then you're just where you were before, running MacOS on an Apple made piece of hardware. Who cares what kind of processor it has as long as it performs well. If you buy the top fo the line, you expect to get something competitive and benchmarks have shown that Intel CPUs are just as competitive as the G5s. The only places where Intel lost in Apple's benchmarks were places where they didn't turn on any optimizations and compiled for plain x86 that'd run on a 486 machine.

    Point being, if it's still "an Apple Mac", what is your problem, really? Are you saying you don't like Apple anymore because of the chip they chose? Or do you just want to make a display of zealous bigotry?
  • Intel umm..
    2005-06-07 16:56:56  Oyku [Reply | View]

    In point 3 I meant Mac OS X server not client.