Apple Switching to Intel 2950
Steve Jobs announced at the WWDC keynote today that Apple is switching to Intel processors. MacNN has live coverage. The bottom line is that Mac OS X for the last five years has been running on Intel, the switch is expected to be complete in two years, and Rosetta will allow PPC apps to run on Intel-based Macs, transparently. If you're using Xcode, it is small changes and a recompile; otherwise, you might be seeing a lot of work ahead of you. You will be able to order the 10.4.1 preview for Intel today.
Have a taste... (Score:4, Funny)
Holy crap. (Score:4, Funny)
I love it. (Score:0, Funny)
Um (Score:5, Funny)
Not that big of a surprise (Score:5, Funny)
I also have been agreeing with the industry analysts who said Apple would be running on Intel chips before long, and I've been vindicated.
Now, if my prediction that Microsoft will have a Linux or other UNIX-like kernel in Windows by 2015 holds up I'll consider myself the Nostradomus of IT.
It sure does hure.... (Score:2, Funny)
Allow me to speak for everybody: (Score:3, Funny)
Dave Thorup, eat your hat! (Score:5, Funny)
Please do not... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This is bullshit. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Have a taste... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Holy crap. (Score:5, Funny)
I'll believe that when the Red Sox win the World Series!
Yeah, nice, but ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Switching ends? (Score:4, Funny)
if(CPU_TYPE == INTEL) {
transparently_handle_endian_issues(filehandle);
} else {
use_old_endian_issues(filehandle);
}
Re:So when can I get a copy? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Holy crap. (Score:5, Funny)
I'll believe that when the Red Sox win the World Series!
Yeah, right -- that's about as likely as finding out who Deep Throat is.
In Soviet Russia (Score:5, Funny)
Collect on all that debt, baby! (Score:5, Funny)
Over the years, I've made a ton of bets with Mac fans who swore up and down that Apple would never, ever switch to Intel processors.
I am now owed several kegs of beer and some free fancy dinners. A couple people owe me a million bucks.
Business strategy:
1. Make wagers with Apple people.
2.
3. Profit! Steve Jobs will make the announcement for you.
Just to make sure I'm understanding this... (Score:2, Funny)
That means that I will be able to 100% natively tri-boot Windows/Linux/OSX on the same rig? I cannot wait to do that.
I believe that's called having your cake, eating it too, and not having to clean up.
Re:This is bullshit. (Score:5, Funny)
Here's some help for the Mac Fanatics (Score:3, Funny)
Crow Pie:
1 crow
stuffing of your choice
salt and pepper
shortening
flour
2 Pie crust mixes
2-3 hard-boiled eggs
Stuff the crow. Loosen joints with a knife but do not cut through.
Simmer the crow in a stew-pan, with enough water to cover, until nearly tender, then season with salt and pepper. Remove meat from bones and set aside.
Prepare pie crusts as directed. (Do not bake)
Make a medium thick gravy with flour, shortening, and juices in which the crow has cooked and let cool.
Line a pie plate with pie crust and line with slices of hard-boiled egg. Place crow meat on top. Layer gravy over the crow. Place second pie dough crust over top.
Bake at 450 degrees for 1/2 hour.
Collected by Bert Christensen
Toronto, Ontario
Re:Allow me to speak for everybody: (Score:3, Funny)
HA-HA!
Re:This is bullshit. (Score:3, Funny)
As soon as this completes I'll know exactly what it does!
Re:Have a taste... (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, just seemed appropriate.
Re:Apple getting out of hardware? (Score:3, Funny)
It had to be said. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:IBM Screwjob (Score:3, Funny)
Now, the question is... what will the new platform be called? Certainly not PowerMac...
Power Efficient Mac?
Re:Have a taste... (Score:1, Funny)
(desperately trying not to think about the dual 2gh g5 I bought in May)
Re:Have a taste... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Holy crap. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:-5 WRONG! READ THE KEYNOTE! (Score:5, Funny)
-JD-
Re:IBM Screwjob (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, wait...
Re:Holy crap. (Score:1, Funny)
503'd! (Score:4, Funny)
What's the fourth horseman???
Re:Um (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Holy crap. (Score:4, Funny)
Or finding Jimmy Hoffa's body.
[drumming fingers on desk, waiting for the announcement]
Re:Worst part about this? (Score:3, Funny)
Doesn't matter, he's still an asshole. (Dvorak, not my dad.)
m-
Re:Have a taste... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Have a taste... (Score:5, Funny)
Last Words of A Mac Hardware Zealot (Score:1, Funny)
eep!
Re:Have a taste... (Score:2, Funny)
A few observations (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Holy crap. (Score:3, Funny)
I'll believe that when the Red Sox win the World Series!
Yeah, right -- that's about as likely as finding out who Deep Throat is
These things are as likely to happen as Bush winning a second term
So what are we gona test new binaries on? (Score:3, Funny)
That's brilliant!
Re:This is bullshit. (Score:2, Funny)
Har har.
Re:Holy crap. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Have a taste... (Score:5, Funny)
I prefer Mac + Intel = Mattel.
Re:Have a taste... (Score:5, Funny)
This only caused the I/O of some geeks to choke up due to wrong endianness. But for most Mac users the network flows as calm as ever.
Mandatory 1984 quote (Score:5, Funny)
At this moment, for example, in 2005 (if it was 2005), Apple was at war with Motorola and in alliance with Intel. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Apple had been at war with Intel and in alliance with Motorola. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Apple was at war with Motorola: therefore Apple had always been at war with Motorola. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
Re:No fear! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Holy crap. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Collect on all that debt, baby! (Score:2, Funny)
And you've been dead wrong, over the years, until today. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Re:Um (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Holy crap. (Score:3, Funny)
reader's digest condensed version (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This is bullshit. (Score:2, Funny)
Inversion (Score:2, Funny)
Microsoft will be shipping PowerMacs based on IBM PowerPC processors to developers who are programming on the Xbox360 platform, and
Apple will be shipping PowerMacs running OS X, based on Intel processors, to consumers.
Tell my wife I loved her and sorry about the brains on the monitor, because MY HEAD ASPLODE!
Re:Have a taste... (Score:1, Funny)
oh wait, you were talking about Apple Macintosh (abbreviated Mac)computers... nevermind.
last post! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Saddening. (Score:4, Funny)
That sounds more like a free operating system running on commodetized parts.
Re:Have a taste... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Have a taste... (Score:5, Funny)
Lawyers?
Re:IBM forcing this? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Apple Computer - WORLD CLASS MANAGEMENT (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Allow me to speak for everybody: (Score:2, Funny)
I saw someone make a prediction of what would happen if Apple switched to x86.
If Steve Jobs stands on the stage at the Worldwide Developers Conference and announces Apple's moving to x86, Satan will rise up from the underworld and devour the souls of every innocent puppy and kitten. And then emit the fart that ends the world. This is, of course, completely unlikely to happen, as we all know Satan prefers chunky peanut butter to the souls of small animals.
I haven't been smelling anything funny, have you.
Re:503'd! (Score:3, Funny)
Debian Sarge was released as a stable build today. You can see it on Slashdot's front page.
Re:Saddening. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Have a taste... (Score:3, Funny)
Quoth plj: This only caused the I/O of some geeks to choke up due to wrong endianness.
You mean you missed the announcement about the new big-endian Pentiums?
Re:You can have my PowerPC... (Score:3, Funny)
Heat output was one of the reasons for switching to x86 in the first place.
Re:MHz is meaningless (Score:3, Funny)
H*ll froze over? (Score:2, Funny)
Debian finally releases Sarge.
It would have been a perfect day if Duke Nukem' Forever was also launched today
Re:H*ll froze over? (Score:3, Funny)
The best golfer is black.
The French calls the Americans arogant.
The Germans don't want to go to war.
Switzerland won the world championship in sailing.
The world is truely comming to an end.
Yes, I would definately go look for Duke Nuke'em Forever!
Well...here's my list then. (Score:1, Funny)
1. The planet Uranus will be renamed Urectum (per Futurama)
2. Concrete will be made from a mixture of water and shit instead of water and stone.
3. Hilary Clinton will become the next U.S. President *shudders*
4. The Earth will turn black
5. The beast will turn pale
6. The seas will turn red
7. The air will turn to poison (is this sounding at all familiar?)
8. Martin Lawrence will be given another sitcom
9. Rosanne will be considered the sexiest woman alive
10. I will get laid
11. Someone will come out with a good-tasting, low-calorie, caffinee free soda
12. Speaking of which, Diet Dr. Pepper will ACTUALLY taste like regular Dr. Pepper.
13. We will find out that light bulbs are, in fact, "dark-suckers" as per the old Internet gag article
14. Canada will become the 51st state
15. They will stop making light beer (FUCK YOU LIGHT BEER)
16. Bill Gates will come out of the closet
17. I'm just going to stop there...you get the idea...
Just 31 more posts until HoF! (Score:1, Funny)
A post in the masses. (Score:3, Funny)