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

[Ray Bowler]

Two items:

One is that the software will only run on Apple manufactured 
computers not on your Dell.

Two is that Apple has to do something about performance. Remember the 
3.5 announcement two years ago? Mortarola/IBM still cannot with the 
needed performance without melting down a Powrbook.  This is the one 
good argument which the competitions has and it could kill Apple.

This is a switch to a new processor. I wasn't around when they went 
to the PPC but I imagine people felt the same way. Their second major 
change was to OS X. A lot of people are still not comfortable with 
this one.  The Mac is building up growth momentum right now and Apple 
thinks this will bring further growth.

A year from now there will be MacTel machines being sold. At that 
point we will have room for further discussion.

>Well, nothing ever surprises you anyway... :)
>
>That they announced it so early is curious. If the G5 roadmap isn't 
>going to serve for the future, which I take to mean that updates 
>aren't going to be all that forthcoming, why buy now (or at all if 
>my Dell will run OS X)? I can only see this being the first stage of 
>a cycle that places less, or in fact no importance, on Mac hardware 
>at all. If Apple is trying to turn the Mac into the iPod, I wonder 
>if it will work?
>
>Matthew
>
>On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:19 AM, James Lagnese wrote:
>
>>I was never shocked, and it makes sense. In terms of what to rally 
>>around, it has always been and will always be Windows v. Mac OS X. 
>>Apple is a Software company, at least when it comes to innovation, 
>>but some won't believe that. What this does is put them head to 
>>head. Imagine, an OS that's Virus and Spyware free that runs on 
>>x86. And for those that say it will only run on Apple hardware? It 
>>will only last as long as someone hacks it.
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