Linked by Craig Dooley on Wed 8th Jun 2005 19:01 UTC
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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Im as big a supporter of the PowerPC as anyone. I love the fact that my mac has a different architecture than 97% of the pcs out there. I run old macs and sparcstations and next hardware just because of the oddness of them. I'm immensely sad that in two years the desktop will become a cpu monoculture, but I think that this is what Apple had to do.
This will be the first time since the original 128k mac that Apple won't have to beg and threaten its supplier to get new cpus. Apple always had technically better cpus. The 68000 killed the 8086, it was a much better design. The same goes for the Power-PCs, But the companies manufacturing them were always more interested in other applications of the technology, motorola wanted embedded processors and IBM wants mainframes and games systems. Apple wasn't a big enough customer to warrant them putting the resources into full-time development. Now finally apple has a supplier whose main focus is personal computers. x86 may not be better than PowerPC, but at least you know that it will be here in ten years, because that's what Intel and AMD do, 24 hours a day. It's virtually their only focus.
I think that it will be interesting to see an Apple that doesn't have to worry about where its cpus come from.