Hehe, ne griješim ja ništa, ovo sve što sam naveo vrijedi :) Samo napravi time shift 5 godina u prošlost :)
Tajni život Stevea Jobsa, LOOOOOOOOOOLZ :>
Kladim se da se da je netko u IBM-u danas porazbijao mnogo uredskog namještaja :>
Dakle taj Leopard bi kao trebao izaći tamo negdje kad i LH, ili malo kasnije, kompatibilnost sa legacy sranjima bi išla Rosetta emulatora (MoM -> Mac-on-MaC :), podržavao bi se samo valjda taj Intel-based Mac (vjerojatno isključivo 64-bitni) a ne bilo kakav opskuran hardver, što valjda u konačnici opet znači da će Macovac implicirati elitist :)
U biti ovaj prijelaz nije nastao da bi Apple postao direktna konkurencija MS-u, te zbog širenja tržišta, već isključivo zbog nedostataka PowerPC arhitekture:
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As for why Apple was making the shift, Jobs pointed both to past problems and to the PowerPC road map, which he said won't deliver enough performance at the low-power usages needed for powerful notebooks
Two years ago at the same conference, Jobs introduced the first G5-based Power Macs and promised developers that the company would have a 3GHz PowerMac within 12 months. The company still doesn't have a machine that fast. "We haven't been able to deliver," he said. Nor has Apple been able to introduce a G5-based laptop--something Jobs said "I think a lot of you would like."
Things weren't looking better in the coming months, Jobs said, saying that IBM's PowerPC road map would only deliver about a fifth the performace per watt as a comparable Intel chip.
Jobs said there are a lot of products Apple envisions for the coming years, but "we don't know how to build them with the future PowerPC road map.
Dakle daleko od toga da je ovo nepromišljena, nagla promjena u strategiji, sve je to Stevie već odavno planirao :)
I tko kaže da treba čekati par godina:
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The CEO showed a demo of the Tiger operating system on an Intel-based machine, saying, "We've been running on an In
tel system all morning."
Joj da barem ovaj shit leaka na P2P pa da ga i mi obični smrtnici možemo probati :)
Mislim da IBM ovo neće puno pogoditi, gubi Apple, ali zato PowerPC pogoni i Xbox 360 i PS3 (Cell, isto IBM), tako da.....
Uostalom gomila nezavisnih testova već danas pokazuje da Macovi na PowerPC nemaju uopće bolje performanse od wintel PC-eva iste cijene, već sve je to medijski hype..