WWDC Rumor Roundup: Apple moving to Intel

Apple's Multi-core strategy http://colincrawford.typepad.com/idg/2005/06/apples_multi_co.html I'm with those who see this as one of the most exciting opportunities every to hit the Mac platform and the PC industry and look forward to many more details emerging over the next few days.

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Frankly, I think the situation warrants the Ghostbusters quote, only because, if it is true, people will freak out, and because if it's NOT true, people will freak out. This whole cats and dogs, living together kind of situation is one of the media's making. If they're right, story of the year. If they're wrong, oh man, watch the eggs come flying. I'm not sure that anyone out there has it nailed just yet. We'll know in about 15 hours.

After all that time talking about numbers of pipes at last years WWDC.. please just dont turn on your word.

I think we should just combine all of the rumors together... tomorrow Apple is coming out with a kick-ass video ipod/pda/phone that runs on Intels xscale processor. It will run tiger lite and be windows and mac compatible. Would that be nice... I know I would breathe a sigh of relief if that were announced tomorrow. Anyone with me?

Its all about Intel's DRM. The movie industry won't settle for anything less than DRM on the motherboard, but they want Apple to lead the way like they did with music. Apple has already conceded that Wintel has won the desktop war, and consumers want to play their newly purchased, newly downloaded movies on each PC in their house. Intel can make this happen. IBM can't (they don't make chips for Windows, much less DRMed). Now lets start with the Mini first :)

Whatever turns up, there are five things you can take for granted: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2005-06-05.23%3A21

What did the little endian say to the big endian? Um, I'm sure there is a punchline in there somewhere...anyway, no way will Apple move the Macintosh line to x86. Intel makes lots of chips other than CPUs though...

I wonder if Intel could make a non x86 chip for Apple, an Intel version of the PowerPC chip? We have seen Motorola do it with the G4 and now IBM with the G5, could Intel produce the G6?

I've never owned a mac. I infact hate Apple. I do however love OS X. Granted I'm stuck in my ways with Microsoft, but for one main reason: marketshare. There just isn't enough hot apps for my liking (apps not created by Apple.) At the current pace it looks like Apple will never have more than 5% Moving to or adding x86 capability could be key to making ground on MSFT. While I agree PPC is superior to x86, lets give credit where it is due: to the OS. The BSD core and stability and OS X experience is what makes Apple appealing. I love freebsd. I hate Xwindows. Apple solves that issue in one quick step.