giraffe said:
maby your still right, it may just be a move to scare the crap out of IBM, and get the price down.
it's happened before.
[1:49 PM] There is a developer kit that includes a 3.6 GHx Pentium 4 Mac. They will have to be returned by the end of 2006. They will be priced at US$999, and please note that these are for developers only. - posted by Dave
[1:47 PM] He's demonstrating it with Quicken, Excel, Photoshop. All of these apps, compiled for PPC, worked fine on the Intel Mac demonstration, It was a completely transparent process. - posted by Dave
[1:46 PM] Apple is calling an emulation layer "Rosetta," after the Rosetta Stone. - posted by Dave
[1:46 PM] Rosetta will allow PowerPC compiled apps to work on an Intel Mac. It's completely transparent, and does not require a separate emulation environment. - posted by Dave
[1:43 PM] We're getting a demonstaration of Mathematica at work. It's quite impressive, of course, and it's working on an Intel Mac. - posted by Dave
[1:33 PM] Today's demonstration has been done entirely on an Intel Mac. Steve is showing us how everything works. - posted by Dave
[1:33 PM] Every project done at Apple has been mandated to work on PowerPC and Intel. - posted by Dave
[1:33 PM] "This has been going on for the last five years." Every release of OS X has been compiled and run on Intel processors. - posted by Dave
[1:32 PM] "Mac OS X has been leading a secret double life. There have been rumors to this effect...(laugh). We've had teams working on the just in case scenario." - posted by Dave
[1:30 PM] It will begin a Mac with Intel processors by June 6th, 2006, as reports said. It should be complete by June 2007. - posted by Dave
[1:30 PM] Says that Intel offers a better roadmap for the markets that Apple services. - posted by Dave
[1:29 PM] Why? Because we want to be making the best computers for our customers. - posted by Dave
[1:29 PM] He talked about IBM missing the 3 GHz mark for the G5, and in not being able to put one in a PowerBook. - posted by Dave