“On April 26, 2005, I mentioned in a blog posting on WinInfo Daily Update that ‘Apple is unhappy with the PowerPC production at IBM and will be switching to Intel-compatible chips this very year.’ That blurb touched off a new round of Thurrott bashing by Apple fanatics, but was later followed up by independent reports in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, News.com, and now The New York Times, all of which corroborated what I had written and added details. Today, according to these reports, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will announce Apple’s transition to Intel chips at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco,” Paul Thurrott writes for Paul Thurrott’s WinInfo.
“My, my, my. Predictably, speculation about this transition has been all over the map. In the early days of the rumor, many suggested that Apple wouldn’t use Intel x86-based chips in Macintosh computers but would instead be using Intel XScale microprocessors for a new Tablet PC-like device. Or perhaps Apple has the cachet to commit Intel to manufacturing Power PC-compatible chips, others suggested. My sources have told me that Apple is actually switching to Intel chips for its Macs, however,” Thurrott writes. “None of that really matters. Like most technology enthusiasts, I’m fascinated by the details of this transition, assuming its happening. And I’ll follow Jobs’ WWDC keynote address today like thousands of others. What I’m more concerned with is the Mac community. Where’s the love, guys?”
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MacDailyNews Take: iPod success opens door to Mac OS X on Intel – March 04, 2004
MacDailyNews Note: On April 29, 2005, Thurrott wrote, “Apple Ships Its Longhorn on Schedule – At 6:00 pm tonight, Apple Stores around the country will begin selling Apple’s next generation version of Mac OS X, codenamed Tiger. In case you were off visiting remote areas of Burma for the last year and a half, Tiger offers many of the features that Microsoft promises in Longhorn, but it delivers them today. Sadly, Tiger doesn’t run on standard Intel hardware, but if the rumors we heard at WinHEC are true, it may soon: In addition to the Microsoft evangelist who told us that Apple was moving to Intel, we later heard that an Intel engineer was claiming that Intel-compatible versions of Tiger were now running in the company’s Santa Clara labs. True or bogus, what the heck: Rumors like this are just fun.”
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