Apple Secretly Maintaining x86 Port Of Mac OS X 736
Earlybird writes "According to this eWeek article, Apple has ported the whole of Mac OS X to the x86 architecture and is maintaining it in parallel with the PowerPC builds. Dubbed Marklar, the project is perceived as a fall-back plan, and, quoth the article, 'has apparently gained strategic relevance in recent months, as Apple's relationship with Motorola has grown strained and Apple looks to alternative chip makers.'" Believe what you will ...
Nope. (Score:3, Funny)
other sides (Score:5, Funny)
Ported all of Mac OS X to x86? (Score:4, Funny)
Let's pool $100,000 (Blender-style) and bribe the guy who runs their internal CVS repositories. Anyone wanna throw in a few bucks for macosx-x86-0dayl33t.iso?
I hope this marklar work out. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:other sides (Score:3, Funny)
Re:other sides (Score:3, Funny)
Jobs: "Powerful is the Dark Side(TM)* of the force. Give in to the Dark Side(TM), you must not"
*the Dark Side(TM) trademark is property of Lucasfilm LTD and this post makes no claim of ownership of said mark. Used without permission.
Re:I'd buy it. (Score:1, Funny)
See, two buttons.
Re:Stick with PPC (Score:3, Funny)
"PPC = RISC architecture
x86 = CISC architecture
RISC > CISC
therefore PPC >x86"
Your missing a key element in your formula, even if I grant the mistaken RISC>CISC part. Intel != x86. For example, the intel StrongARM processors used in the iPaq are RISC.
Re:Leaked Photos of Hardware (Score:2, Funny)
-- The_Messenger
Re:Stick with PPC (Score:2, Funny)
Apple's Trump Card against MS. (Score:4, Funny)
However, it's an invaluable asset to have anyway, because you can blackmail microsoft with it. Remember when MS bought all that Apple stock? Remember what dire straights Apple has been in in the past? Despite all that, Mac OS remains to this day the only consumer OS besides windows that has managed to gain and hold onto a significant userbase versus Windows. And it has a lot of software. So pretend you're Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs gives you a ring and says "If we start to go under, for any reason, we're releasing our x86 build of Mac OS X... as open source." There's not enough TP in Redmond to handle that kind of threat. Or any of the lesser ones they could make too.
But imagine the damage to MS an OSX XBOX Port ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wait a sec (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Leaked Photos of Hardware (Score:3, Funny)
Jesus Christ, give me a minute. Photoshop is a little slow on this 600mHz iBook.
If I had a beer... (Score:2, Funny)