macosXrumors.com: news and rumors related to Mac OS X and Apple: “A Pentium on a PCI-X card?
A MacBidouille’s reader notes that the following was posted on Apple’s Darwin x86 forums:
“Customers with existing PPC G5’s will have the option of a PCI-X based add-on card with a native Intel follow-on to the P4 “D” chip and of-course the Transitive/”Rosetta” bundle. Any other PPC machine bellow the G5 (i.e. G4, G3 machines) are not included on the current roadmap inclusion. Third-party providers have shown interest is providing a solution for down-level Macs.”
We still don’t know if Apple itself will provide such a card and if this card will allow both of the processors to work at the same time. “
Categories: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
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Mac OS Rumors :: The Original Mac Rumor Site.: “Next version of Mac OS X will be ‘Leopard,’ and will focus largely on the transition to Intel/x86. As Apple seeks to commoditize many aspects of its hardware, Leopard will focus on unique features including an extremely graphically-rich user interface revamp leveraging the meta-data technology (aka Spotlight) introduced in Tiger.
Apple has adapted Transitive’s QuickTransit code morphing engine, as rumored, and will deliver it to developers as ‘Rosetta’ which allows PowerPC binaries to run on Intel with reasonable performance. A developer kit with a 3.6GHz P4 Intel-based ‘Mac,’ OS X 10.4.1 for Intel, and Rosetta will begin shipping in two weeks.”
Some thinking from http://www.macosrumors.com
Categories: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
MacInTouch Home Page: “We don’t see any new arguments for switching to Windows; it’s still grossly insecure and vulnerable to malware, uglier and less consistent than Mac OS X (notwithstanding Mac OS X’s deplorable Finder and deteriorating user interface). However… Mac users will have to choose between investing in the new MacTel systems or switching to Windows, as the costs will likely be similar. We have no idea yet how, or if, Windows applications will run on MacTel systems. “
This is the first instance of the term MacTel, posted by Ric Ford over at Macintouch.
Nice one Ric.
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WWDC 2005 coverage: “MacScoop.com
Welcome to MacScoop. The World Wide Developers Conference 2005, will be covered live here.
- The Keynote is over
- the intel switch is mainly happenning next year
- Jobs says that the operating system is the soul of the Mac, not the CPU
- Jobs says Mac OS X rune very well on Intel, better than Windows does
- Jobs gives arguments to the attendees that it’s a good choice
- Jobs concludes that this is an important story with a happy ending
- Old commercials showed, including the famous ‘Toasting the pentium’
- CEO of Intel on stage: some history of the silicon valley, showing Apple and Intel CEOs together
- Microsoft’s Mac BU manager talks about the switch
- Apple is selling a new dev kit (3.6 GHz Pentium 4 running 10.4.1), available in 2 weeks.
- official PR announcing that Apple switches to Intel
- Office runs without any porting or recompiling
- Jobs demoes Applications : Mathematica, Photoshop plug-ins…
- new xCode supports FAT binary and is available to all registered developers
- universal binaries (FAT) will work on both Intel and PowerPC based Macs
- Jobs talks dev tools
- Apple was developing on x86 and PowerPC verions of all its software since 5 years
- The transition will finsih on June 2007
- first Intel based mac comes on June the 6th
- Jobs talks Intel!
- Leopard, codename of the next Mac OS X release
- almost 2 million copies of Tiger
- QuickTime downloads reach 1 billion
- Jobs talks retail stores (109 locations worldwide)
- 430 million songs sold
- Jobs enters the scene
Conference starts at 10 a.m.”
A nice synopsis of what happened.
Categories: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Apple to Switch Macs to Intel Chips: “Apple Announces Plans to Switch Macintosh Computers to Intel Chips Used in Windows-Run Systems
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a risky move that could further shrink its minuscule slice of the PC market, Apple Computer Inc. announced plans Monday to switch its Macintosh computers to the same Intel Corp. chips used in systems that run Microsoft Windows.”
Risky, now there is a word I’ve not heard around Apple for a while. What happened to beleaguered?
This PR is FUD.
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