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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I think they are out of options - IBM is busy making consoles and it wants out of it's agreement to supply apple with chips. Jobs now has to either secure a supply of top of the range Power chips (preferably 3Ghz and G5 compatible), or else he has to go back to all those people he said were phoning him asking him to supply OsX for Intel and agree to supply it in OEM packages. Unfortunately, the alternative chip suppliers are also busy, and well, apple are not on good terms with them either anyway, which leaves either the licensing option or Stevie finding something else to do between weekends.
Meanwhile IBM keeps showing that mac mini knockoff, presumably there would be laws against selling it, so perhaps they are making it for apple as part of a settlement for breaking contract. If so, it's a fair bet they are also involved in software side too, perhaps modifying either smartsuite or the compatibility layer from Os/2 to fit OsX for Intel. Now that would be fun, OsX for Intel with built-in windows compatibility, maybe bundled with a shuffle for the same price as XP!
OK. So not very likely, but then again, neither was the other story last friday...