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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Just so you know, those Xeons you are referring to are IA32 architecture chips with 64 bit extensions. IA64 is the Itanium / Itanium2 family, which is an entirely other species of animal. Apple will most certainly NOT move to IA64 because just ONE of those processors, and I mean the slow one (>1GHz) with the little cache (3MB) (and just one core), will cost over $1000.