[Ham-Mac] MacOS X x86 Intel Support

[Chris Smolinski]

>On Jun 7, 2005, at 8:44 PM, Bill Coleman wrote:
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>>You do have the ask the question: what does the switch offer to 
>>Intel, and what would Intel offer Apple to entice them to switch? 
>>Intel has very deep pockets and they can apply very large economies 
>>of scale. I think there's more to the story here other than the 
>>obvious.
>
>Often Apple has not been able to ship as much product as customers 
>demanded only because IBM/Motorola could not ship enough CPUs. All 
>the talk of "Apple has been running MacOS X on Intel for the past 5 
>years" sounds a lot like a sword to threaten IBM/Motorola. As with 
>any weapon its worthless if one isn't willing to use it. This one 
>got used on Monday.

Most PowerPC chips are used for embedded applications, like 
automotive computers. I can't imagine the complete loss of Apple 
would make more than a dent in PPC CPU sales.

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Chris Smolinski
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