Star Why Apple's switch to Intel is a good thing
Linked by Craig Dooley on Wed 8th Jun 2005 19:01 UTC
Apple With the announcement that Apple is switching to Intel, the computing world has been thrown a curve ball. Speculation will run rampant for the next year. We obviously won't know what's going to happen until it happens, but I see a bright future coming out of this. I see Apple with more headroom for the future to create better, faster designs. I see much more opportunity for the hacker community to work with this also.
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Re: legacy
by nimble on Wed 8th Jun 2005 19:23 UTC

How will Apple shed the legacy junk?

Well, they won't. Intel isn't likely to do a special edition without real mode, segmenting, x87 FPU, the infamous A20 gate, and whatever else Apple doesn't actually need.

Perhaps they will have OpenFirmware instead of BIOS, but who knows.