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:
Permalink for comment
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
Because it means to bye again same version of soft....
one other word :
Microsoft Office suite ->
Microsoft would never developp a x86 office suite for mac, it would mean compete on their own land...
more over
the double switch : frome one arch (PPC to x86) and to bigendien to little endian is just too hard for apple
you talked about fat binaries, you better talk about emulation in double sens : x86 <-> ppc and with fine speed....
if and only if they are able to make intel make proc with double instruction set (ala transmetta) it's possible...
in the other hand : no. Nobody will be willing paying twice just for a recompile (and believe me : the switch is not that easy)