Itanium, and Pentium, and MacTel, oh my!

摘要

Lucifer has just set up a snow cone stand down on the corner. The thing that would never happen, happened. Apple announced at the June Worldwide Developers Conference that, beginning in 2006, Macs will ship with Intel Inside. Has the chime begun to haunt your dreams yet? All over the Mac web, and on a great many mailing lists, variations on "the sky is falling!" theme are being played out. But, why? Let's look at a few of the contentions of the complainers. First, Intel is evil. They are the bad guys, in cahoots with Microsoft, they are SATAN! Meh. That's MacMac thinking, and has no place in reasoned discussion. Intel is a company that makes chips. IBM is a company that makes chips. Apple no longer sees IBM heading in the direction they need. Evidence the lack of a G5 PowerBook now and in the foreseeable future. The roadmap as given to Apple had both desktops running at over 3 GHz, and G5 PowerBooks in the stores today. It didn't happen, nor was it going to. The 970 roadmap took a left when Apple needed to go right. Intel is willing to meet Apple's needs, and it would seem, has shown Apple they can get there, while IBM cannot.