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Skriven 2006-07-29 17:14:00 av Robert E Starr JR (5720.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Babylon 5 computer ga
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In article <4ivpm0F5q8avU1@individual.net>,
 Rob Perkins <rperkins@usa.net> wrote:

> Amy Guskin wrote:
> 
> >>Your next mac or the one after that will likely be Mac OS installed onto PC

> >>hardware.  You may yet have a chance at salvation.  :)  <<
> > 
> > 
> > Yeah, except this is the precise reason I'm going to put off buying my next

> > Mac for as long as possible!   They have become...compromised.  They are no

> > longer of the body.  Unclean!  Unclean!
> 
> With all the respect I can muster for a worthy interlocutor of years 
> past present and future:
> 
> Bzzzt.
> 
> Macs have been running on "PC hardware", that is, the same hard disk 
> technology, memory technology, display technology, mouse technology, 
> everything, even the PCI and AGP technology, for years and years and 
> years now.

you forgot pola...i mean, USB. 

but seriously, i have to second this, i don't understand the big deal, 
it's a lot like when the PPC architecture came out, and everyone said 
"but but but, it's an IBM processor, they're the enemy." 

ibm, intel, microsoft, none are "the enemy" the enemy is simply sitting 
on your hands while technology presses forward thinking that simply 
being better yesterday guarantees success tomorrow.  motorola/ibm were 
simply providing a component, they failed to keep that component up to 
standards for apple's needs, so apple found someone who could do it. 

you mention the xbox 2, the ps3 and the nintendo wii(most idiotic name 
ever) also run on PPC architecture. and it's rumored that it just may be 
these 3 systems that resulted in the difficulty in apple getting the 
performance they wanted from ibm/mot*. the chip manufacturers are going 
to get millions of orders for these systems this 4th quarter alone. so 
of course, they would have had no problems if they left apple high and 
dry and said "uhh, yeah, we'll get back to you" 

basically, it's no different from any other time apple has made a 
hardware switch to get better performance because their suppliers 
haven't kept up with the competition, and it won't be the last either. 

*yeah, the apple/intel switch occurred before these 3 systems all came 
out(2 of which are not yet out).  but since the friggin xbox 360 demo 
machines last year at the E3 show were actually mac G5's under the table 
with empty xbox 360 cases on the table, it's pretty clear that apple 
knew what was going on long before anyone else did, and made the switch 
early enough to avoid shipping delays(remember, one of steve jobs' 
mottos was "real artists ship")

...chris
                    
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