apple moving to x86
Brett Glass
brett at lariat.org
Tue Jun 7 22:58:38 GMT 2005
At 01:40 PM 6/7/2005, Miguel Mendez wrote:
>How so? Apple is a niche market. I find their switch to x86 pretty
>depressing actually, although I understand their reasons.
Who says it'll be a total switch? I could easily imagine Apple
switching to x86 for its lower end products (or even selling MacOS
X for PC clones) but continuing to use PowerPC for high end workstations
and servers. There's some actual potential to make a profit selling
hardware into these niches, whereas there's little or none in the
highly saturated consumer desktop and notebook markets.
><yoda>The boy you trained, gone he is. Twisted by the Dark Side, young
>Jobs has become.</yoda>
<yoda>There is another.</yoda>
Seriously: in many folks' opinion, Jobs *was* the Dark Side and should
have done something like this years ago.
--Brett Glass
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