“Intel shifted the majority of its Pentium 4 processors to 64-bit capability over the weekend. Intel quietly introduced the Intel 5×1 series, which shifts the existing 775-pin, 32-bit Pentium 4 line—known as the 5xx series—to 64-bit memory addressing,” ExtremeTech reports.
“For customers, all this means is that Intel is encouraging its customers to buy 64-bit chips instead of the older 32-bit Pentium 4s; save for the 64-bit capability, the new 5×1 series is identical to the older 32-bit Pentium 4s, and priced identically,’ ExtremeTech reports. “Prices of the new chips range from $163 to $637, in lots of 1,000 units.”
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Apple to use Intel microprocessors beginning in 2006, all Macs to be Intel-based by end of 2007 – June 06, 2005
Yeah when was IBM going to quietly move the G5 to 3.0Ghz?
maybe 64-bit Mac os x on mactel..
I’m too ‘po’ to afford anything now, but one day, should my diabolical scheme of education come to fruition, I will undoubtedly be able to check email on a really fast machine!
Don’t forget that you also need a 32X DVD burner and a 21″ LCD monitor to check email (as any salesperson will gladly tell you).
The very best possible thing that Intel can hope for out of their partnership with Apple — apart from sales, of course — is that Apple might somehow influence them to simplify their product line. If you’re marketing microchips to hardware vendors, it’s fine to have a three-inch-thick catalog filled with cryptic part numbers. But if you’re trying to market your chips to the general public, offering dozens of seemingly identical products leads only to frustration for all parties involved.
And, as I’ve asserted many a time, I definitely need a flux capacitor.
Does anyone actually recognize that reference anymore?
R: And, as I’ve asserted many a time, I definitely need a flux capacitor.
I had one I would have given to you, but I left it in the 1960s.
Flux capacitors were more likely to turn up in PowerBook G5s. 1.21 Gigawatts would just about power the cooling system.
i’d gladly give you a flux capacitor, but i need it to take over the universe. oh, and to take on duck dodgers.
A 64-bit processor in a new Mac mini would be nice.
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No McFly’s?
Biff killed Mcfly in 92, and ripped of my flux capacitor.
Somehow, people treating something from a mediocre movie from the 1980s as a classic reference is starting to make me feel very, very old.
If you really want to date yourself, set the “way-back” machine to the movie “Buckaroo Banzi” That believe it or not is were your gonna see the same flux capacitor (different name, same prop) on Buckaroo’s 8th dimension truck.
The Pentium 4 is crap. The Pentium M is where the future of Intel is at. A 2.5Ghz single core Pentium M blows away a top of the line Pentium 4 EE. 64 bit makes no difference, except for the ability to address more than 4GB of RAM.
Does anyone think we may see Macs with Intel chips BEFORE next summer? Anyone think Steve wanted to lower our expectations – then surprize us?
“Does anyone think we may see Macs with Intel chips BEFORE next summer? Anyone think Steve wanted to lower our expectations – then surprize us?”
I’m expecting Macworld SF. Besides, Apple never said the Intel-powered Macs would arrive in one year, the press release states: “Apple® announced plans to deliver models of its Macintosh® computers using Intel® microprocessors <i>by<i> this time next year”. By the use of the word ‘BY’, Apple is referring to a range of time (specifically, the time frame from Jan 1, 2006 up until right BEFORE WWDC ’06), not a specific date or event.
On a side note, I expect to see PowerBooks (and maybe iBooks) to be first up for the Intel chips.
I’d be shocked if they don’t introduce at least some Intel based Macs at MWSF in January ’06.
And what do you think the AOpen “Mac mini clone” was?
“Gosh, it looks just like a Mac mini….and has a Pentium M in it….what a rip off!”
What if that was the prototype MacIntel box for the low end machines?
macnut222,
By the use of the word ‘BY’, Apple is referring to the period from Jobs’ WWDC Keynote in June 2005 until June 2006 (next time this year).
Nobody from Apple said anything about waiting until 2006.
I can type no more or they’ll get me… Infer what you will.
Inside Job –
Are you related to As Seen On TV?
“Nobody from Apple said anything about waiting until 2006.”
Last time, I checked, Apple put out a joint press release with Intel titled:
“Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006″
If that doesn’t say ‘waiting until 2006’, I don’t know what does.
It is a ruse. Sets up the surprise. Porting going so well, transition moving along so smoothly, here’s Intel Macs already! No way we’re going to sit around not selling Macs until 2006 when we can start selling them this summer for back to school.
Now I have to kill you all.
(Buckaroo Banzai quote altered to fit todays situation regarding Mac OS on Intel…)
“Dance while you can, Monkey-Boy!”
http://www.tarmo.fi/arc/monkeydance.mpeg
Like your thinking B-Sabre!