Intelimac
06/06/05 Filed in: Balderdash
As I type this, Steve Jobs is announcing that Apple
will switch processors from IBM PPC to Intel Pentium
starting June, 2006. 2 years ago, Jobs had promised a
3ghz Mac , but IBM was unable to pull it off, so he
dropped the hammer.
The whole Interweb has been abuzz over the weekend about this announcement, so it comes as no surprise. What is surprising is that every version of Mac OS X has been compiled for Intel processors in the super secret Apple labs. Every version in the last 5 years, and it has been running on Pentium processors in Cupertino since around 2002. Although there had been rumors that OS 10.3 would run on Pentium, it had never been confirmed, or really, given much credence.
I wonder what the penalty would've been had anybody leaked and confirmed that information, say, two years ago? That engineer probably would've vanished off the face of the Earth...
The whole Interweb has been abuzz over the weekend about this announcement, so it comes as no surprise. What is surprising is that every version of Mac OS X has been compiled for Intel processors in the super secret Apple labs. Every version in the last 5 years, and it has been running on Pentium processors in Cupertino since around 2002. Although there had been rumors that OS 10.3 would run on Pentium, it had never been confirmed, or really, given much credence.
I wonder what the penalty would've been had anybody leaked and confirmed that information, say, two years ago? That engineer probably would've vanished off the face of the Earth...
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