Wow Mac just announced that they're switching to Intel CPU's!
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You mean.. Apple announced they were switching their Macintoshes to Intel
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Here is the quote from Jobs on why:
As the Intel logo lowered on the stage screen, Jobs said, "We are going to make the transition from PowerPC to Intel processors, and we are going to do it for you now, and for our customers next year. Why? Because we want to be making the best computer for our customers looking forward."
"I stood up here two years ago and promised you 3.0 GHz. I think a lot of you would like a G5 in your PowerBook, and we haven't been able to deliver that to you," said Jobs. "But as we look ahead, and though we've got great products now, and great PowerPC products still to come, we can envision great products we want to build, and we can't envision how to build them with the current PowerPC roadmap," said Jobs.Comment
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The upside of this is down the road it may be much easier to make a mac into an HTPC. If Apple doens't just go ahead and do it for us.
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Interesting they also said that the new mac's would be able to run windows...not that they'd recomend it
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Not exactly. They said they would do nothing to prevent people from getting Windows to run on their machines. I would be somewhat surprised if it was possible straight out of the box with no fiddling whatsoever, though.
BBAfter Jobs' presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs, saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based Mac. "That doesn't preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They probably will," he said. "We won't do anything to preclude that."
However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac OS X on other computer makers' hardware. "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac," he said.Comment
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Well, it's amazing to me to see some of the pragmatic actions coming out of Intel lately; they're going even further than I excpected, but the "leadership" shown by AMD in processor philosophy and general architecture has got to be galling....
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Intel delays launch of TV chip
By MATTHEW FORDAHL
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- In another product postponement, semiconductor giant Intel Corp. said it won't be offering a chip for projection TVs by the end of 2004 as it had announced earlier this year.
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Buy an Intel based pc get Dolby technologies native on board....hmmmm...
That just might give NForce a run for it's money with the HT and gaming crowd. Time will tell....09 September 2004, 09:12 Thursday -
Well seeing as nobody mentioned it, I will. On Tuesday Intel released their P4 2.4 Ghz chip. It looks to be pretty darn fast and seems to really overclock well. The Northwood core is speculated to scale to greater than 3Ghz.
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Hi, all,
We're looking for info on the Intel LCoS tv's coming out supposedly later this year....I can't find much out there except from January/February when they announced they will be producing chips (codenamed Cayley) and hope to reach a large portion of the market with sets around...
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