[Ham-Mac] Re: Ham-Mac Digest, Vol 17, Issue 5

[C.Mark Burlingame]

Chicago Tribune, Jun 7, 2005 edition reports in its Business section  
that Apple will "transition to Intel chips" beginning in '06.  Check  
out:

   
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi 
-0506070284jun07,1,1570269.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

The article states that ". . . the move poses big challenges for Apple,  
its software developers and users."

73
Mark B.

On Jun 7, 2005, at 3:00 AM, ham-mac-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
> On Jun 6, 2005, at 9:08 PM, KD5NWA wrote:
>
>> I saw a news article on Yahoo that mentioned that Apple was going
>> to use the same CPU that PC's use. No clue how accurate that is
>> since it didn't quote Apple on that.
>>
>> If they really go that way I have very mixed feelings about it.
>>
>> If it runs in regular PC motherboards with BIOS on it then I
>> wouldn't mind running OS X on some of my present PC's.
>>
>> Knowing Apple, they would probably use motherboards that use Open
>> Boot instead of a PC Bios. They can't compete in the regular PC
>> Motherboard market, the hardware is too cheap, and they always want
>> to lock out competition.