Apple; IBM - Teaming for 64-Bit Computing

[Jerry Jones]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,543317,00.asp?kc=EWNZ102049TX1K0100487

Very interesting.

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Elie]

I also read somewhere that Apple is going Intel.

Who knows what they will do next.

Cheers,
Elie

[Dr Mordrid]

Give us a reason to tell Billy to go to hell maybe? I've heard good things about OSX....

Doc

[Frank Marshall]

So have I, like its an easy port to the PC Platform. I even corresponded with an Apple guru some years ago who claimed to have a rudimentary evaluation version of Apple's Unix-based OS for PCs but this is all very hush hush. I have heard nothing more about it. I guess Apple reckon they can hold their own in the hardware department but I have long thought Apple's best technology is it's software.

[wkulecz]

We use OS X here quite a bit. I like it, but its far from perfect, if it keeps improving and Microsoft continues in its current direction my next box may very well be a Mac -- but what I have now works well enough (assuming Ulead comes through with their updated "Power Patch II" to fix the mpeg encoding problems) I can probably wait things out for the next two or three years unless MSP7.x offers faster than real time high quality mpeg2 encoding on Hammer :-)

What is interesting, is since Apple "owns" the hardware they could start fresh at 64-bits with a Hammer based design. The BSD underpinnings makes porting from PowerPC to Hammer or IA64 much easier than was moving from 68K to PowerPC.

--wally.

[Elie]

The only thing I hate about Apple in general is that it's hardware is proprietary end of story.

I like to stick with the PC world simply because it has more support, if Apple develops an OS for the PC world and hardware and software developers support it, I'll dump XP as quick as I can.

I care about NLEding, gaming, office apps, and audio.

Apple show me the OS

Elie

[wkulecz]

Since software is much more profitable than hardware it would seem a no brainer to me if I were running Apple! But Steve Jobs lives in his own world, perhaps trapped in his own reality distortion field.

I guess he likes 100% of the small Apple pie compared to Microsoft's ~50% of the much larger PC compatible pie. Microsoft may actually take home an even higher percentage of the actual PC compatible net profits, I'm just going on the cost of a "typical" PC plus the cost of MS XP and Office.

--wally.