Steve and Bill Getting all Comfy Together.
True, it’s a funny ad, but still, what’s up with that? An Intel chip in a Mac? Wasn’t it Apple that spent years and years trying to convince people that the architecture of their chip made the numbers look different, when in fact the apple chip ran so much more efficiently that it was a 2 to 1 speed ratio? What happened to that? Now they want us overnight to believe just the opposite? Now what are all the dedicated Mac people going to do with their stupid shirts and stickers about how crappie Intel chips are? 
Look at this- you can even install XP on these new Mac's! What the hell? It’s a sad day for the Mac lovers out there. Now all we have is the operating system. That’s it, the pretty, easy to use, and stable operating system. No longer can we say the computer itself is any better then a well made PC.
posted by Josh at 2:29 PM
6 Comments:
Josh, we found something we agree on! We both have great disdain for Intel. I only have on Intel chip on my whole network, and that's only because it's in a 5 year old laptop.
Really though, the hardware question has been answered recently by multiple core, 64-bit, x86 chips made by both Intel and AMD. The main advantage PowerPC archetecture had was the speed of the bus from the processor to the memory. This discrepancy has been addressed with the new generation of chips on the market.
Also, just because Intel is making the chips, that doesn't mean that Macintoshes will be x86 archetecture. It's extremely likely that the seperate archetectures will remain. The real question is why haven't we ever had versions of Mac OS for PC and vice versa for Windows.
4:46 PM
Yea, they have always made Windows for mac, but it ran at the same time as the mac os, which slowed them both way down. Now you can install it natively on the mac. They never made mac for windows, probably because there was never a demand for it.
Thats interesting about the bus speed and the x86. I thought that it was the way the chip itself was made that made the difference. Was it the chip or the way the chip was used that made it impossible to switch operating systems?
8:41 AM
It's the way the chip interfaces with the other hardware devices in the computer such as main memory, expansion slots, I/O devices, and file systems - what is called a platform. All microchips are basically the same - just a few billion transistors - and they are made using pretty much the same methods, just in different designs.
Although the x86 platform dominates the PC market, legacy systems still exist using PowerPC, SPARC, and other mainframe and proprietary platforms.
There have been ports that allow users to run windows as an application from within a linux system, but like the Mac version, it was ridiculously slow. The bad thing that's happening now is that OS makers are imposing proprietary file systems that don't play well with others. Interoperability will suffer.
12:46 PM
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3:24 PM
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9:24 AM
Cassie, I hate to have to tell you this on a blog, but remember that Star Trek episode when Data meets his mom, only she is a robot but she doesn't know it? Well, you are my girl robot. And your running on a Mac PowerPC platform.
11:38 AM
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