Apple in Talks with Intel?
The rumor originated at The Wall Street Journal:
The report, citing two industry executives with knowledge of recent discussions between the companies, said Apple will agree to use Intel chips.
Apple has seriously considered switching to Intel at least twice in its history. One previous project code-named Star Trek actually ported Mac OS 7 to Intel based hardware in 1992. Most recently, internal IBM documents noted that Apple considered switching to Intel but felt it would cause too much trouble:
Apple believed that using Intel would deeply affect its current customer base. Using an Intel architecture might solve Apple's short-term megahertz dilemma, but customers would have to suffer through a slow transition from PowerPC over the long term.
Such a switch would traditionally require recompilation of applications, but Page 2 rumors have suggested the use of Transitive Technologies' software which claims to "dynamically translate and accelerate binaries" up to 80% performance matching, as well as unconfirmed reports of x86 seeds of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
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Bottom line: The only way I think this can be true is if Intel has some big new thing coming out that Apple knows about and we do not.
I find this impossible to believe. I think the recent announcements of Xbox 360 and PS3 (which both contain processors manufactured by IBM, though the latter wasn't developed solely by IBM) show that IBM has some major potential in being the future of the processor industry. Furthermore, even if Apple wasn't going to use IBM, it looks to me like Intel should be the last choice, as AMD has passed them up again in terms of performance.
Bottom line: The only way I think this can be true is if Intel has some big new thing coming out that Apple knows about and we do not.
+1 . But i would hate it, hate the Intel music thingy at the end of the adds
+1 . But i would hate it, hate the Intel music thingy at the end of the adds
AFAIK you do not have to do this, it just gives you some money from Intels PR pool... I strongly doubt that Apple would do this :)
I presume its the latter, but that this could be the first step towards the former.
I don't believe it, although I bet Steve is still mightily p1ssed off with whoever told him he'd have 3Ghz chips by LAST summer ;)
their devoted Mac fans. Can you imagine a neat little 'Intel Inside' on the front of your G5? Never! They'll stick with IBM.
Manogomy? Humbug. They shifted from Motorola to IBM and no one lost any sleep over it. You think they're abandoning their core customers? Don't be silly. My trusty old G3/400 still works, still runs Tiger, and will do so for the foreseeable future.
If a partnership with Intel positions Apple for greater exposure and higher heights, then I have no problem with it.
In reading the previous post, it does seem more likely that this partnership may be for a PDA/Tablet type product, but whatever it is I hope it makes a tidal splash.
Go, baby, go.
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