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June 7, 2005
The Sky Has Fallen...OMG!!
Well you'd think so reading all the misinformed Mac zealots out there with regard to the Apple/Intel announcement.
"Apple have betrayed us all never again will i use a mac and no more will they be as pc users flock to buy osx for pentium 4s i wish i was there i would have bood" moron
Don't get me wrong, I'm an Apple evangelist, and love my Powerbook, and I think the Intel thing is a great thing.
It does not mean that you will be able to boot up your Taiwanese clone on OS X.
Do you really think Apple is going to throw away its absolute brilliance in design and allow any machine to run it? Nope, I didn't think so. Intel inside is different from Tiger on the outside.
For one, the move to Intel allows Apple to get some radically bumped up laptops. The PPC chip runs way to hot to put a G5 in it, unless it looks like this.
So according to Om Malik, this move is primarily centred around the laptops and other portable devices - a Mac Tablet on the horizon I see. The high end, professional G5's out there will still be around for a quite a while.
"First, this deal is going to be all about the laptops, especially those which can handle OS-X nicely, are light weight and consume less power. Because if that was not so, then Apple could as easily have signed a deal with AMD, which makes better x86 chips for the desktop. IBM has failed to deliver the low power consuming yet muscular versions of its G5 chips fine tuned for Powerbooks. Secondly, I think Apple will exploit Intel’s chips for often rumored Tablet PC, that could have features in common with Nokia 770 tablet. I would not be surprised that Monday morning, the announcement circles around XScale, or low powered Centrino chips." Om Malik
Then there's the DRM factor inside these chips (Pentium D) - Hollywood loves that. Just think - pay-per-view movie off iTunes Music Store, thanks to the cozy relationship built between Apple, Intel and the studios.
UPDATE: I forgot about the fact that Intel is also buiding WiMax functionality into their chips as well. Interesting cocktail.
Apple is about the digital home, not about computers.
Think consumer electronics.
Think different.
Steve does.
Posted by sdehaast at June 7, 2005 11:45 AM Posted to digital-lifestyle
Comments
One of the guys in our office just got a brand new G5 - and after looking at the way it's put together (hardware-wise), the collective opinion was "Damn, that's hot!"
After this impressedness, my feeling is that if Apple only made hardware, they'd actually do better as a business. If I could afford it and could run XP on it, I'd happily buy a G5. So would almost everyone else I bounced the idea off... Even though it sounds crazy, I think OSX (which I don'y have anything against, besides lack of support for serious business software) is *limiting* Apple at the moment. Maybe a bigger change than we think is on its way...
Posted by: Martin at June 16, 2005 2:41 PM
I'm a bit slow today. When I read "One of the guys in our office just got a brand new G5" I was wondering why he needed a cannon.
Posted by: Adrian at August 24, 2005 4:59 PM