[DM-MUG] Apple moving to Intel - confirmed by Jobs at WWDC

[Bill Davis]

No, they have stated you will NOT be able to run MacOS X for Intel on 
anything but Mac hardware.   (For now anyway...Steve Job's long term 
master plan to destroy Bill Gates may let you one day.  Not to mention 
the efforts of all the hackers out there....)

Remember, Apple makes most of it's money from selling hardware, not Mac 
OS X.   So making Mac OS X for all Intel boxes would destroy Apple.  
They couldn't hope to sell enough copies at $129 or s to make up for 
the loss of hardware sales to the el-cheapo box makers.

But they should be able to much more closely match the price of the 
"name brand" PCs.  The Mini got them close.  This will get them closer. 
  And the "megahertz myth" will now be history.

Plus, SoftPC should work MUCH faster when running on Intel hardware!  
They already make SoftPC for Intel (that's the major reason Microsoft 
bought it from Connectix, actually, so they could run 
multiple/different copies of Windows on the same server.)

  - Bill


On Jun 6, 2005, at 1:11 PM, John Kisner wrote:

> Does this mean you will be able to run OS X on a Dell (or whatever)?  
> That would be an intriguing challenge to Windows Longhorn, but at the 
> same time be a challenge to Apple hardware.
>
> John
>
> On Jun 6, 2005, at 1:02 PM, Bryan Baker wrote:
>
>> I'm still picking my jaw up off the floor, but in case you hadn't 
>> been paying attention to the rumor mill over the weekend, the press 
>> has been buzzing about an Apple/Intel deal since friday, and 
>> amazingly it's true. The "Marklar" rumors about x86 builds were true 
>> and now Macs will transition to Intel by '07.
>>
>> The good news here is they're making Xcode do much of the heavy 
>> lifting here, so a developer won't need to target a particular 
>> processor (in theory).
>>
>> I'm still in shock and am concerned as to what this will do to 
>> existing markets in the mean time. We'll see.
>>
>> --
>> Bryan Baker
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>> Des Moines Macintosh Users Group
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