Apple + Intel
Categories: Apple
I never thought it would happen, but I’m happy it did!
Apple is officially switching to Intel processors. I think this is a very good move for Apple, this will allow them to put faster, cheaper processors into Macs. According to the information on the WWDC keynote, developers wont have to do much at all to make their Cocoa based apps work on Intel processors; I’m pretty amazed Apple could pull this off.
Most Windows/Linux users are probobly thinking “Now I can run os x on my Dell.” I would suggest that Apple, to the best of their ability, will make this impossible to do. x86 based os x will most likely only run on Apple branded Intel boxes; which I believe is a good thing, most of Windows’ problems stem from incompatibility in different hardware configurations.
Believe it or not, the Intel Chips are actually more significantly more expensive than the PPC chips. The notion that Intel chips are cheaper is a myth, which people presume on account of PC’s being cheaper in general. In fact, it is not due to speed that Apple switched: raw gigahertz is not a measure of computational speed: the PPC’s had a higher computational speed per hertz than the Intel architechture chips. (I tried to find the link, but I’m having a little trouble. I read this from some online IT publication’s analysis of this move by Apple)