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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From what I've read the Opteron(Dual core)/Althon64X2's put the Xeon 64bit CPU's into the shade on nearly every benchmark. The logical approach for Apple would be Intel for the powerbooks/ibook/mac mini and the Opteron(Dual core)/AMDX2's for the desktop/XServe's.
From what I've read the Opteron(Dual core)/Althon64X2's put the Xeon 64bit CPU's into the shade on nearly every benchmark. The logical approach for Apple would be Intel for the powerbooks/ibook/mac mini and the Opteron(Dual core)/AMDX2's for the desktop/XServe's.