Fitting in rather nicely with a discussion Simon and I had in the comments on this posting, John Dvorak argues that Apple are about to begin a switch to an Intel-based architecture.
I find the idea that Apple will spurn the x86 family and go straight for the Itanium somewhat plausible, in that - initially at any rate - going for a high-end chip family would allow Apple to avoid being sucked into the commodity hardware quagmire. However, I'm still not entirely convinced. In particular, I don't see Apple trying to incorporate any form of Windows compatibility into a new OS for multiprocessor systems.
yay, name in lights time!
I reckon it'll happen one day, I can just see it
Posted by: simon on March 21, 2003 01:05 AMThe considered opinion of uk.comp.sys.mac is that this is just Dvorak seeking page hits again.
On reflection, I'm not convinced the dual-architecture machine is the way Apple would go. They might just go for a really high-end Intel chip somewhere down the line, but if they do I think it'll be more of a warning shot across the bows of Motorola and IBM than a serious attempt to change processors and architectures again.