[DM-MUG] Fwd: [MacLaw] Mac's on Intel

[Victoria L. Herring]

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>  >From MacWorld:
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>The rumors are true: Intel will be inside
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>Jobs talked about the major transitions in the Mac's life -- starting from
>the Mac's Motorola 68000-series processor to PowerPC. "The PowerPC set Apple
>up fro the next decade. It was a good move," he said.
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>"The second transition was even better -- the transition from Mac OS 9 to
>Mac OS X that we just did," he continued. "This was a brain transplant. And
>even though these operating systems (9 and x) vary only by one in name, they
>are very different, and this has set Apple up for the next 20 years."
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>As the Intel logo lowered on the stage screen, Jobs said, "We are going to
>make the transition from PowerPC to Intel processors, and we are going to do
>it for you now, and for our customers next year. Why? Because we want to be
>making the best computer for our customers looking forward."
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>"I stood up here two years ago and promised you 3.0 GHz. I think a lot of
>you would like a G5 in your PowerBook, and we haven't been able to deliver
>that to you," said Jobs. "But as we look ahead, and though we've got great
>products now, and great PowerPC products still to come, we can envision
>great products we want to build, and we can't envision how to build them
>with the current PowerPC roadmap," said Jobs.
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>Intel processors provide more performance per watt than PowerPC processors
>do, said Jobs. "When we look at future roadmaps, mid-2006 and beyond, we see
>PoweRPC gives us 15 units of perfomance per watt, but Intel's roadmap gives
>us 70. And so this tells us what we have to do," he explained.
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>Transition to Intel by 2007, and yes, Marklar exists
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>"Starting next year, we will introduce Macs with Intel processors," said
>Jobs. "This time next year, we plan to ship Macs with Intel processors. In
>two years, our plan is that the transition will be mostly complete, and will
>be complete by end of 2007."
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>Jobs then confirmed a long-held belief that Apple was working on an
>Intel-compatible version of Mac OS X that some have termed "Marklar."
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>Mac OS X has been "leading a secret double life" for the past five years,
>said Jobs. "So today for the first time, I can confirm the rumors that every
>release of Mac OS X has been compiled for PowerPC and Intel. This has been
>going on for the last five years."
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>Jobs demonstrated a version of Mac OS X running on a 3.6GHz Pentium
>4-processor equipped system, running a build of Mac OS X v10.4.1. He showed
>Dashboard widgets, Spotlight, iCal, Apple's Mail, Safari and iPhoto all
>working on the Intel-based system.

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