What is the Intel Switch Costing Apple?

SenseOfHumor writes "A Business Week article says that it costs Apple $898 for an Intel iMac before loading it with software and packaging. From the article: 'But for Apple, the switch to Intel chips is less about saving money in the short term, and more about hitching its wagon to Intel's longer-term product road maps, particularly in the area of notebooks. IBM's chips are power-hungry and generate a lot of heat, and therefore not suitable to notebook computers.'"

If they don't know....

[MountainMan101]

If they don't know, why ask us? Everyone knows slashdot crowd knows nothing. But we'll always comment. So I'll say it's costing them at least a hundred pigs a month in tribute. Maybe some biscuits (you Yanks call them cookies).

the real costs

[Anonymous Coward]

ibm relationship, $1,000,000,000
porting operating system $30,000,000

finding yourself on the platform you have been bagging out for the last three decades? Priceless!!

-Sj53

Apple, AMD

[Piroca]

AMD fanboy's logic

Intel loses market share to AMD
Apple moves to Intel
Therefore, Apple loses market share to AMD

Power grab

[digitaldc]

"IBM's chips are power-hungry and generate a lot of heat..."

In a related news item, IBM chips are now running for elected office worldwide.

hitch your wagon - to a SINKING ROCK!

[Thud457]

Hardware: Intel Loses Market Share to AMD [slashdot.org]

Apple Computer : Proudly going out of business for 30 years

Economy of the 'Change'

[palad1]

I don't know what it costs Apple, but I sure know the change to Intel will cost me about 2000 .

Re:If they don't know....

[Zerbs]

Yes, but how many Bacon Jr. Cheeseburgers is that?

Re:hitch your wagon - to a SINKING ROCK!

[ac3boy]

"Apple Computer : Proudly going out of business for 30 years" Man, that is one of the best lines i have read in a long time. Good one! Cheers, John.

Re:Then what are the savings on battery life?

[Kenja]

There is also no mention of the new MacBook curing cancer and not eating puppies. There for the inverse must be true, it'll consume your pets and give you cancer!

Re:My question is, how much might this cost Intel

[RetiredMidn]

I wonder how Redmond will respond to that.

Copy it, probably.

Re:If they don't know....

[Reducer2001]

I don't know, I didn't go into Burger King.

Re:Don't We Know this already?

[MochaMan]

Really, what this article is saying is that Apple is only making $450 per low-end iMac sold, based on their own estimates, which are most likely wrong.

Because the $898 worth of parts magically engineered themselves into a computer, set up an assembly line, and assembled themselves into iMacs, made the OS driver updates and general optimisations, and marketed themselves by hiring advertising firms and buying TV spots, then added themselves to the online store and transported themselves to the brick-and-mortar stores. ;)

I know you realise this, but reading a lot of comments here, it seems most people don't.