“Paul S. Otellini, head of Intel Corp., the chipmaker famous for its alliance with Microsoft Corp. and the Windows operating system, is expecting delivery of his new Mac laptop any day now. It’ll be his first,” Mike Musgrove reports for The Washington Post. “Otellini might be the first guy at the top of the world’s largest chipmaker to buy a computer from his company’s longtime neighbor in Silicon Valley. He doesn’t know for sure. But it’s certain that he’ll be the first to own a Mac with an Intel processor inside.”
“Otellini once headed up Intel’s marketing department, and he isn’t afraid of stunts to promote the brand. One week, he’s on stage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, helping colleague Sean Maloney perform a magic trick to introduce a new processor. The next, he’s in San Francisco, wearing the white ‘bunny suit’ of a chip factory worker onstage at Apple’s trade show to announce that the new Intel-powered Mac computers would soon start shipping,” Musgrove reports.
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my 2nd 1st post all in one day. go intel.
Hope he likes it. Might put even more wind into the sails.
neat
Just provide enough g*ddamn chips for Apple in every conceivable iteration that they need — AND ON TIME!!! — and you can publish all the attention-getting articles and press releases you want. Okay?
Just don’t go and “IBM it” on us.
Talk about a slow news day.
I rather see the bunny toasted
look here and laugh
http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/iMovieTheater3.html
You know, this is all marketing bs and publicity stunts to get us to sell out to Intel, us diehard Mac users would rather croak first than use a inferior Intel processor.
Wait till you see what IBM sends down the pipe later in 2007, it will blow peoples minds, and guess what? Mac users will be stuck using inferior and slow Intel chips.
But oh well, IBM supposely dropped the ball on a cooler G5 processor for laptops right?
Wrong!
Consumer PC’s are going to trusted computing and HDCP DRM HELL and that requires, yep, Intel processors.
Apple might be grabbing some of that new hot IBM action in the PowerMac line, several times faster than present (and future) Intel processors.
Why? IBM innovates, they got all the brains in the world.
Intel is farming their brains to terrorists in the middle east.
Oh you didn’t know. LOL Google it!
Intel is evil. Toast the Bunny!!
Madhatter- One word: Valium.
Another word: Ritalin.
You know.
I really like Otellini. In an age of dour CEOs he’s willing to make fun of himself and seems a pretty cool guy.
For what it’s worth Intel seem a lot more interested in Apple than IBM have been in the last few years.
Intel has finally turned from the dark side.
http://musobs.blogspot.com/
Chill Madhatter. The POWER roadmap is pretty solid, expecting mindblowing performance down the road that will beat the crap out of any X86 processor out there – as IBM would say. Problem is: With IBM, you never know when they will deliver. When will this mindblowing performance be delivered? Will it be 2006, 2007, 2008? Is Apple just going to wait forever for those speedy chips? Will there ever be a low power version? That’s the problem. Intel delivers on time and what Apple wants because it is focussed on delivering consumer PC chips. IBM is mainly into servers. Somewhere down the road, those IBM chips will probably emulate Windows faster than running native on any x86 chip, bla, bla, bla. It doesn’t matter.
This sounds like a guy who knows how to get things done. No wonder Steve likes him!
I think I do too.
I’m sure he’ll enjoy the bombproof military security that the MBP offers. I’m surprised that every executive isn’t sporting one.
“But it’s certain that he’ll be the first to own a Mac with an Intel processor inside.”
So nobody at Intel has an Intel iMac then?
“But oh well, IBM supposely dropped the ball on a cooler G5 processor for laptops right?
Wrong!”
Care to back up that assertion? There is no G5 capable of going in a laptop.
I wish that some of ADHD sufferers that frequent this site would learn the difference between IBM’s POWER chips – which are invariably meant for ‘big iron’ – and PowerPC – which lands up in your Xbox 360 or your router.
POWER occasionally gives a clue as to what will happen with PowerPC, however I would point out that that we were supposed to be well into PPC 980 by now, and that PPC 990 was supposed to be only a couple of years away.
Another key thing that people need to learn is the difference between a press release and a shipping product,
Good riddance to PowerPC. Once the Intel transition is complete Apple will have a mighty big ace up its sleeve, should it ever need to play it – the option of licensing OS X to PC makers.
yeah once its completed compatability with about 2 million components, windows does have an enormous compatability which ya have to give it credit for
Madhatter,
Chill, dude.
Apple needs to use the best chips available, regardless of source.
Remember that IBM’s promised 3GHZ PowerPC is almost as late as Windows Vista. What good is innovation if you can’t deliver product?
The MacBookPros AREN’T being shipped until March 10 or thereabouts. So while the bigshots at Intel may get theirs soon, we will all get ours later.
A fellow who ordered his MBP on Jan 10 had originally a ship date of Feb 7, which was then bumped to Feb 10. And just yesterday he was informed that his MBP wouldn’t ship until (estimated) March 10.
I suppose those of us with an estimate of Feb 15 will receive our delay notice very shortly. I can’t imagine that we wouldn’t be delayed in much the same fashion as those whose orders were supposed to go out before ours.
Reference: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=172034&page=59
Once chips get fast enough, no one will care if there’s emulation/Rosetta-type stuff working anyway. Like recent talk suggests, the idea of multiple cores is scalable to some really large configurations. Most people won’t care if something runs under Rosetta or similar because they don’t crunch numbers. Anyway, with universal applications, Apple can switch back and forth if processors grow– right?
MDN “Taking”– as in taking some time to think things through.
In case you didn’t read…
UNIVERSAL APPLICATIONS.
I was a NeXT and SunOS sysadmin when NeXT transitioned from Motorola to Intel in 1993.
Many people cried the same stuff: “OMG! But, but…the 68060s are coming out Any Day Now! How could you go to the blatantly inferior 486??!”
And, yes, in NeXT’s case, they got out of hardware and just licensed the fantastic NEXTSTEP 3.2 for Intel, SPARC and PA-RISC. At least Apple is still making cool hardware, too.
All I know is:
1. Fat binaries worked well (but were a little piggy when enterprise servers still only had 2GB of storage; not an issue now)
2. My 486/66 kicked the ass of the NeXTstation Turbo Color it replaced.
<smug>
When ever you have an issue with the Intel transition, ask someone who was involved with NeXT in the early 1990s. We’ve seen it all before.</smug>
Reading the article again, it seems clear to me that Intel more than Apple was responsible for the transition, and that Intel wanted it badly.
Intel is moving away from chips towards “platforms”. I guess they wanted Apple for that reason, since Apple tends to popularize shifts in personal computing before anyone else. If Apple makes, say, a personal media centre and it becomes wildly popular, then Intel can leverage that into sales to the followers like Dell and Gateway.
Intel is moving in the direction of connected home media, and IBM is not. It makes sense for Apple to go with Intel.
The really good thing for Mac users if I am right is that Intel is going to treat Apple as the vangard of its new product lines, and that means we get the best stuff first.