“It’s not the product some have been hoping for, but there is already one Apple Computer machine that has ‘Intel Inside.’ For a long time, people have suggested that Apple make its Mac OS X operating system work with Intel chips. While the Mac maker has not done so, it has used Intel processors in one of its recent products–the Xserve RAID storage system,” Ina Fried reports for CNET News.
“Intel included one of the rack-mounted storage systems in a display at this week’s Intel Developer Forum here… According to Intel marketing materials, the Xserve RAID uses Intel’s IOP 331 chip, a derivative of the XScale processor. The IOP chip, which is used in many storage systems, is designed to speed the task of shuttling data in and out of a computer system,” Fried reports.
Full article here.
OK, that article was not nearly as exciting as I thought it would be. It didn’t give much information, either.
I hope people don’t flame out about this. It’s no big deal. Intel is not the “enemy,” just the cousin no one likes.
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Big deal Apple has used stuff from Intel before, like USB for example.
In fact they used it first if memory serves.
Intel makes more than just CPUs. What’s new? This story is boring.
Not necessarily first, The Kahuna. However, they did start the popularity move with USB. Thank goodness, because ADB stunk.
Oops. I meant ADC (Apple Desktop Connector), not ADB.
ADC? That’s Apple Display Connector if I’m right.
You do mean ADB which stands for Apple Desktop Bus (the old way of connecting Mouse, Keyboard and other peripherals to the Mac
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Thanks, maceddy. Guess I shouldn’t drink this early in the morning.
ADB. What I said the first time…
Must be a slow day…
oh my gawd!
Remember in the day of Mac ][s? I found it hillarious that IBM SCSI hard drives were used!!
Remember, at the component supplier stage, they’re ALL in bed together…
Jb
Sad. So much jabber on the iPod, and this, THIS, is the only thing I’ve seen in I don’t know how long on the Xserve RAID.
I just came back from training in Cupertino on the Xserve/Xserve RAID/Xsan product. These are true Enterprise level products that are a dream to deploy and manage. A big success story would be how they run the iTunes music store. You could even use the word iPod in the story, but alas, nothing.
And (eek) Apple has also been know to use components from Toshiba and Hitachi and IBM – all rival computer makers.
They start out making it sound like the XRaid runs a version of OS X, making it sound like OS X could then run on Intel stuff. Its just a storage unit. And since Intel’s IOP 331 chip is the best chips to use in a storage unit, Apple used them. I mean, really, did they expect it to have dual G5s in there.
With the best will in the world, isn’t the entire Xscale family ARM-based? So it’s not like they’re using a Pentium 4 or a Xeon, is it?
I don’t care who makes the components, as long as they use the best chip for the job. In this case, it’s an Intel.
For the CPU on a Mac however, the Pentium is not the right choice, especially now the Power architecture is starting to fly ahead again.
Intel is not the enemy- Microsoft is.
I’m not even sure that M$ is the “enemy”. I think it is the authors of all the malware, spyware, virii etc. I work in a cross platform environment. And other than the stupid “Fisher Price” UI, WindowsXP isn’t that bad. Just ugly. I expect OS X to be better, it was designed to a closed architecture. WindowsXP works pretty well though to be supporting a thousand different hardware vendors.
That being said, I still prefer to use my Mac.
All Mac’s have some form of PC hardware technology in them. Period. Hypertransport was mostly developed by AMD.
Note to Apple: Make available a version of Tiger for x86-64. Then, Watch your company grow like a mofo.
MW “Might” as in Apple could overcome the “might” of MS if they would just release Tiger on x86/64.
Old news. Intel has been in the AirPort Base Stations also and older Power Macs and iMacs. Not really news here.
Magic word was ‘life’ as in tell this writer to get a life and report some real news.
GrapeGraphics wrote:
“Remember in the day of Mac ][s? I found it hillarious that IBM SCSI hard drives were used!!”
Remember the day of the Apple II’s? Apple used to have Microsoft firmware in the ROM (I think for the BASIC interpreter).
Maybe that’s the real reason Jobs was so anxious to forget the past and start all-new with the Mac. He always was ahead of his time.
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