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apple switches to x86

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I'm taking it you don't approve?

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it was inevitable, they either had to open their market for clones, or adapt to the x86 chip
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All that Mac porting for nothing. :X
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Fusen wrote:I'm taking it you don't approve?

nice little deabte of this weke's twit podcast

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no, i've never been a big apple fan. i think it's a good move for apple.

maybe the batteries for steve jobs' RDF finally ran out.
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it's not going to be done till 2007, so there's some time, but if you didn't see it coming, you weren't paying attention
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HP & Mac collaberation with ipod
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gotenks wrote:it's not going to be done till 2007, so there's some time, but if you didn't see it coming, you weren't paying attention
Mac OS based on Unix Shell
HP & Mac collaberation with ipod
few other small signs
neither of those had anything to do with a move to x86. :D

osx was based on NeXTstep. not that apple had a choice in the matter when pink/taligent/etc were massive failures and nearly killed the company.

hp didnt collaborate in any way with apple on ipod. they only licensed the rights to make a clone.
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might have more to do with the fact Motorola don't want to make the chips anymore, prefering to go ahead with other communication technologies
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motorola hasnt made powerpc chips for apple for quite some time now. it's all ibm at the moment.
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bani wrote:hp didnt collaborate in any way with apple on ipod. they only licensed the rights to make a clone.
I know they didn't start it, but apples been becoming more and more cozy towards the pc side of the market
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Nail wrote:Motorola don't want to make the chips anymore, prefering to go ahead with other communication technologies
Motorola are completely separated from Freescale Semiconductor since last year, so they don't make any CPUs anymore afaik. :)
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Maybe we'll see that Leopard thing run on stock x86 machines too.

Next time hell freezes over Bill Gates will have announced Windows goes Open Source ;-).
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