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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1) Apple is currently walking over money from their recent ipod sales and so it can support low sales of their mac hardware for some time.
2) Apple as refocused their business to the ipod and is not so dependent on mac sales.
3) Apple's big advantage is on good marketing and design decisions and that can be achieved either with a PPC ou x86 arquitecture. The brand can still achieve higher recognition with "common" hardware.
4) Software has been the wheel that moved Apple's business and not hardware. Just think what you prefer the most: MacOSX on x86 or WinXP over PPC/Apple hardware?
5) Apple can take advantage of some big CPU players (AMD and Intel) who's main business is selling chips for desktop computers. No more problems with low offer of cpus when they starting to release new products and must take advantage of the momentum.
6) When buying new hardware from Apple, businesses will no longer be locked into Apple's software and can possibly install WinXP ou Longhorn if they want.