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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people arent thinking here. What would be the advantage of jumpin to intel? Apples bread n butter has been laptops and the fact that OSX runs 64bit on PPC, even on laptops, even Intel's new powerhouse chip, Yothan is only 32bit, yes it'll be smaller and cooler, but not necessarily as powerful and capable. Apple is also huge on multicore and making gains in supercomputing, IBM is king of that castle and Apple has touted touted them for that by praising the g5's in the xserve and how well they performed not to mention that all 3 gaming consoles are touting IBM multicore chips, i smell bull$h!te