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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As far as 64-bitness, Tiger is actually behind XP. Yes, the kernel is 64-bit, but beyond that only the BSD layer has been updated.
Microsoft takes flak evertime a new version of Windows (or a service pack, for that matter) breaks a small handful of programs. Can Apple survive such a drastic platform change?
Remember, the switch from 68k to PPC was when the Pentiums were new, and before Windows 95 came out. The switch from OS 9 to X was looooong overdue and was also desperately needed.
Let's not forget the other times Steve Jobs has set some speed goal for the G4 chips that Motorola never met, and look how long it took to ditch them.