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[Richard Bluestein's Weblog] It sounds like Apple's switch to Intel could kill Apple's computer hardware business for a while. I'm guessing that they are riding the iPod wave in order to get them through this upcoming rough time. According to this, they will not be supporting the 64 bit platform on Intel and the developer's are going to be pissed because the AltiVec customizations are going to be particularly hard to port.

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[/dev/movabletripe Making up launch dates since 1982] CISC: If I was a car manufacturer and wanted to compete against my biggest rival company, I certainly wouldn’t stick the very same engine under the bonnet. I realise that is a terrible analogy, but contemplate this for a second: If Apple really wanted to stick it to Microsoft, they should have continued to excel in areas where Microsoft have failed, or at least lagged. If I were Steve Jobs, and wanted to topple the ivory tower that is Wintel, I would have hit them where both companies have played second-fiddle: 64 bit architecture. Both Linux and Apple have beaten Windows to the 64-bit-punch and Intel has done a veritable U-turn on their stance on 64 bit processors, and they have been playing catch-up ever since.

[waikay.net] “Hell freezes over”: “To sum up, RISC and PowerPC were always more important to Mac users as a sort of talisman, or banner around which to rally. They represented a technical ideal to which Apple (and by extension Mac users) always aspired though rarely reached.”

[Wiredblogs.tripod.com] The Cult of Mac Blog: As initially reported, there a couple of big problems with Apple moving to Intel. The biggest is shifting all the Mac software to a new platform. Apple apparently mulled moving to Intel a few years ago, when Motorola's chip development fell woefully behind, but Steve Jobs nixed it because of the massive disruption it would cause developers.

[Blog.wired.com] The Cult of Mac Blog: As far as I know, this is the first time one of Sanada's imaginative, playful designs has been realized as a product. Of course, Sanada has been designing mock Apple products for years. There's no way to tell if Altec Lansing were inspired by Sanada's mockup, or dreamed up the design independently. Just like Sanada's mockup, Altec Lansing's speakers are reminiscent of bazooka-style boomboxes.

[News.com.com] It's Intel inside for Apple's Mac | CNET News.com: New life for the old 'Star Trek' project flashback An early '90s plan by Apple to port the Mac OS to Intel processors drew this response from Bill Gates: It's "like putting lipstick on a chicken."

[Theappleblog.com] The Apple Blog: To much of the general public, a computer is an enigmatic box, a semi-magical creation which is simultaneously a portal to a half decent encyclopaedia, countless reams of porn and a lot of free music, a free messaging service and a good way to send long, rambling letters to people you don’t want to see face-to-face, a games console that lacks the convenience and controllers of real consoles but sometimes makes up with better graphics, and maybe a half decent typewriter. Whether the processor within is a PowerPC or something descended from Intel’s cruellest mistake (the x86; ask anyone who programmes it low level), whether the operating system is Windows XP Home, Mac OS X or Linux 2.6, most people don’t care as long as it does what it does. To most people, Macs are just prettier. “What?

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