Apple to Use Intel Chips?

Stack_13 writes "Wall Street Journal reports that Apple will agree to use Intel chips. Neither Apple or Intel confirm this. Interestingly, PCMag's John C. Dvorak predicted this for 2004-2005. Are even cheaper Mac Minis coming?"

Aw, jeez...

[Anonymous Coward]

...After everyone worked so hard to port Linux to the PowerPC...

Sure

[diegocgteleline.es]

Yeah, I'm sure apple is going to release a x86 apple computer. I mean, PowerPC is not in its best moment, after all xbox 2, PS3 etc are not carrying powerpc chips. Also, a new architecture would mean no binary program for mac os x would work in a x86 computer, 3rd party companies would love such movement.

Jobs would rather let apple die before selling a x86 mac

Re:Dvorak

[tbone1]

If Dvorak predicted it, you can bet it won't happen.

The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a "mouse". There is no evidence that people want to use these things.
- John C. Dvorak, SF Examiner, Feb. 1984.

Probably False

[SirStanley]

This is a rumor that keeps getting recycled. It could be true this time... just like it could have been true the last 50 times it's happened.

New headline:
Erroneous Wallstreet Journal Article causes Mac Fans through out the world to riot. Killing 15

What really happened ...

[maxwell demon]

Steve Jobs said he liked the potato chips he was offered during an Intel presentation, and plans to sell the same chips in Apple's cafeteria as well. :-)

Re:Intel make chips other than CPUs

[Loco3KGT]

I was led to believe we hadn't sacrificed enough virgins.

Re:Intel make chips other than CPUs

[pizen]

Apple doesn't want to lose it's userbase.

ba-ZING!

Re:Here we go again...

[Gilmoure]

Ya' really think Apple would release a generic OS X-X86, that would run on white box parts? Naw, they'd use Intel chip DRM to tie it into just Apple brand boxes. C'mon, they make money pushing plastic, not bits.

Is this a dupe?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sure I have read about Apple's imminent switch to x86 before...

Re:Only one thing left to do!

[GaryPatterson]

You sicko!

Why do you want to tape a duck? Is that some sick animal bondage fetish you have? Some sort of Beatty-esque perversion, but with less hamsters?

Or... did you mean *duct* tape?

No... the animal bondage thing seems a simpler and more believable explanation.

Itainium

[essinger]

Is it possible that Intel has found someone who wants to buy their Itanium cpus?

Re:Dvorak

[gotw]

Invented at SRI, causes RSI. Heh

John Dvorak predicted it?

[atomm1024]

Yeah, big deal. He predicts that every year. Maybe he was lucky this time. :)

Re:Does this mean -

[cloudmaster]

Yeah, macs are no good for personal computing. If they used Intel chips, then they'd be personal computers; but since they use PPC chips, macs are only suited for server and mainframe usage.

Dvorak

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Self-cancelling statement: "Interestingly, Dvorak predicted..."

Mod parent wrong

[calambrac]

This is false! Kids, listen: If you want to get laid, buy a Powerbook, get some black-rimmed glasses and a dog-eared copy of a Thomas Pynchon novel, and go find a good coffeehouse near a university. Grab a table near a napkin dispenser. Do not open the Powerbook but place it conspicuously on the table in front of you. Pretend to read the novel. Make eye contact with the grad student across the way and smile.

If things go well, she will decide that she needs some napkins, and while gathering them together will accidentally drop some on the floor. Help her pick up the excess paper and make a stupid little joke, something like "Oops, there go some trees." She will then say something like "I love Pynchon" at which point you reply "Have you seen Zak Smith's illustrations [themodernword.com] for Gravity's Rainbow?" You will then open the Powerbook and visit the site via a bookmark in a folder named 'Diversions'. It is important that she not see the folder marked 'Linux stuuf' or 'pron'. Spend the next thirty minutes saying things like "I really do think media is ultimately the message" etc. If you successfully complete this sequence of steps, sex is all but guaranteed.

Re:Why cheaper!?

[Roadkills-R-Us]

They probably wouldn't be.

But at least we'd see louder Mac Minis, because if they went with Intel CPUs, they'd need those hellaciouly large CPU fans as well.

In a Mini, that might make for a helicopter. Which would be its biggest redeeming featire - thenew, Flying Mac!

Re:Mod parent wrong

[Gauchito]

How that will actually go with a Slashdotter:

1) Grad student notices that book is held upside down and slashdotter's eyes are staring unblinkly at student's breasts, as in a vain attempt to use the Force to rip open shirt and unhook bra (act that said slashdotter is incapable of with two friends helping and a 200 page instruction book).

2) Mac dies a short-circuiting death after being drowned in 5 inches of said slashdotter's drool, and in an ironic twist wipes 5 years of carefully and selectively collected porn.

3) Ducks are seen swimming in coffehouse's newly created indoor lake.

Re:Dvorak

[kevcol]

I would say that MacPaint was a demo/toy program

Sorry, pal-

I used MacPaint to create perfect reproductions of my SJSU report cards to add classes I was not actually taking in order to show I was a full time student to get various discounts (car insurance, American Express student travel program for $120 coast to coast RT flights, etc).

The fact is, MacPaint saved me money!

Re:Mod parent wrong

[radish]

I don't know what's funnier - the post itself, or the fact it has a +1 Informative. :)

To the dark Side...

[deviantphil]

Oh no....apple is going to the dark side.