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Mnementh:
So the MacNN feed is being dumtarded, but basically the Apple switching to Intel chips are turning out to be true.  Apparently they're going to use Rosetta, an emulator to run PPC code on the intel chips until the phase over is complete, supposedly pretty fast and transparent to the user.  Jobs demo'd photoshop CS and Word/Excel on this.

These are Intel based Macs, not just Intel boxes, so Apple is still in the hardware business.

Anyway, MacObserver has more.

c1utch:
But the question is, whats going to keep us from ploping it on any old PC?  They havn't specified that yet, but I'm sure there will be some way Apple keeps it off ... or will they take on MS?


Heh, the comments are so funny over at MacRumors: (read: "Apple you betrayed me")  

Get over it people, Apple is a comapny, and companies exist to make money.  If switching to intel gets them more money, then they will switch.

Mnementh:
ROM, it will be made so that only Apple machines can boot OS X.  However, they aren't doing anything to prevent people from booting windows on it.

nickyandthefuture:
Yeah, Phil Shiller said that they're not going to support running Windows on Intel Mac, but he thought that someone was probably going to do it.  He said that they're not going to allow it to run on non-Mac PCs.  Keep in mind that while they're going to be running x86 chips, the Mac architecture is still very different from the typical PC (OpenFirmware instead of BIOS for one thing).  It's probably possible, though.  I just hope that Apple doesn't have to introduce any product activation bullshit.

I'm kind of mixed on the whole thing.  I think that if Intel will make better chips, that's cool - I don't really care about the logo on a piece of my computer that I'll never look at.  I just hope the transition goes well and I don't get fucked over for having a PPC computer.  There's a lot of cognitive dissonance going on throughout the Mac community since we've been convincing ourselves for years that PowerPC is a better system, but if the new Macs run well, I doubt that anyone will care for very long.

EDIT: Really though. The Red Sox won the world series, Deap Throat was revealed, Bush got re-elected, and Apple just switched to Intel.  Who fucking broke the universe?

Sideways:

--- Quote from: nickyandthefuture ---EDIT: Really though. The Red Sox won the world series, Deap Throat was revealed, Bush got re-elected, and Apple just switched to Intel.  Who fucking broke the universe?
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If my sig weren't dedicated to shameless self-promotion, that would TOTALLY be going in there!

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