Jun 04, 2005
Meet the Apple Nessie PC
By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 8:41 PM
Having read the News.com story about Apple’s supposed impending switch to x86, let me propose an excellent code name for this forthcoming system: “Nessie.” Like Nessie’s namesake Loch Ness Monster, the rumor of Mac OS on x86 rings of the stuff of tabloids, not something that people take seriously. Of course, that leaves us to ask what we are to make of it when one of the most respectable online computer news sources, News.com, reports as virtual fact that Apple will be switching to Intel, and the story apparently seems credible enough to get Reuters to pick it up. Read my full thoughts at OfB.biz.
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Re: Meet the Apple Nessie PC
Steve has just verified your Loch Ness monster.
http://www.podcatch.com/2005/06/06#a340
And here:
Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006 Monday June 6, 1:30 pm ET
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050606/sfm142.html?.v=9
WWDC 2005, SAN FRANCISCO, June 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — At its Worldwide Developer Conference today, Apple® announced plans to deliver models of its Macintosh® computers using Intel® microprocessors by this time next year, and to transition all of its Macs to using Intel microprocessors by the end of 2007. Apple previewed a version of its critically acclaimed operating system, Mac OS® X Tiger, running on an Intel- based Mac® to the over 3,800 developers attending CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote address. Apple also announced the availability of a Developer Transition Kit, consisting of an Intel-based Mac development system along with preview versions of Apple’s software, which will allow developers to prepare versions of their applications which will run on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.
Re: Meet the Apple Nessie PC
Yup. See my newest post.
Actually, from what I’m hearing about Rosetta, I’m cautiously optimistic that Jobs can pull it off again. Apparently MS Word runs via Rosetta with no perceptible difference in performance. If that turns out to be true, than Apple is far more brilliant than I expected.