Linked by David W. Kuhn on Fri 10th Jun 2005 16:34 UTC
Was it Palol Rossetti that one said, "People in glass house shouldn't throw stones?" Push away the Intel this, the Pentium-M that, or perhaps the ability to use the Dual Core Pentium 4, Apple has a much bigger challenge ahead of them. For years, they have been throwing down the MHz myth and now? They are sleeping with the "enemy" according to PowerPC zealots. 
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I can't understand why everyone has to hang on to this powerpc platform, aren't you guys concerned at all about the progress of Mac OS X rather than the drab details of hardware?
IBM cannot produce the breadth and depth of consumer and business chips like Intel. That's intel's game, chip making.
What does it matter anyway? Everyone says that x86 is such a kludgy architecture, but what does it matter? There's been enough engineering around that kludginess over the years to make it a very high performing architecture. Your iTunes app and iPhoto app will be much faster on intel, can't you rejoice in that?
And the other thing to mention is that the pricing is going to take a huge dive. IBM is just not in the business of mass production, yeah yeah you may say that the gc was a consumer driven product, but i beg to differ, that thing hasn't sold as many as ps2 or xbox. the cell processor is going to be r&d'ed by several companies, not just ibm, so that'll be more feasible. Apple wants out of the computer hardware business so that they can focus on the value add to their customer base--software and cool shit that helps professionals get their work done. That's not to say they won't work with Intel engineers to craft things up, but there will be less investment over time on the hardware side of things. Imagine dual core macs competitively priced. Didn't everyone always used to bitch about dual g5 top line prices? I don't think we're talking about sub $1000 top end macs, but definitely more bang for the buck that everyone's been wanting, more power, more compatibility, more progress.
I for one applaud the intel partnership, hardware is a commodity, focus on the value add. Now it's clear why tiger didn't have so many features as panther, they were focusing on the intel port.
bring us more powerful macs at better prices, who cares if one or two losers like Martin Girard decide to drop apple. Does anyone care if there's one less imac buyer? C'mon, give me a break, he's not even a high end customer, like anyone gives a rats ass. Go back to winblows you baby, or linux, i for one use multiple os's and hardware, it's all about whatever works in the end.
And lest not forget the true roadmap for computing: multicores, multi-os's running congruently to give end users the best user experience.
All those for progress say aye, all those for Martin Girard and company say fuck you.