Subject: Re: Apple switches to intel -- welcome to the 'historic section', port-macppc
To: Jeffrey Hergan <jeff@absoluteproof.net>
From: Peter Hessler <phessler@theapt.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/06/2005 12:49:31
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 03:43:17PM -0400, Jeffrey Hergan wrote:
:Is it fact that Apple is switching to Intel or is it only rumor?
:And wouldn't Intel be able to make a PPC chip?
Fact. Apple is switching to the Pentium4 (although why they are going
to ia32, rather than to amd64/emt64, doesn't make any sense to me).
Intel could, but Apple chose to go x86.
:Thanks for any info--I've been searching for links, but haven't found
:anything conclusive.
http://www.macrumorslive.com/web/
http://www.thinksecret.com
Slashdot has a link too.
:
:Jeff