Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 5th Jun 2005 22:11 UTC
After News.com's Friday report that Apple is moving to Intel/x86, the respected publication Wall Street Journal and now NYTimes threw their reputation behind the rumor. Many people still remain skeptical, but I personally believe that the time is right for Apple to switch to x86-64, for two main reasons:
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All of the 'real' news articles point to a 2006 to 2007 conversion date...isn't that when Longhorn comes out? People must have forgotten Microsoft's marketing muscle. If you think a conversion to an Intel chip in '06 and '07 time frame wouldn't be lost in the signal to noise ratio of a Longhorn launch that's selling MS short.
Also the progression cited in the news.com article makes little to know sense. It talks about the Mac Mini going first. Their flagship products would be the ones that need to go first if speed & time to market are the concern.
I also wonder about the 'osborne effect' where announcing something that yes years away is a wonderful idea. Who is going to want to buy something now knowing it's a dead platform?