Comments on: Thoughts on Apple moving to Intel http://www.theoneandtheonly.com/2005/06/06/thoughts-on-apple-moving-to-intel/ from the mind of Andrew Buckman Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:54:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Andrew http://www.theoneandtheonly.com/2005/06/06/thoughts-on-apple-moving-to-intel/comment-page-1/#comment-1059 Andrew Wed, 08 Jun 2005 10:15:48 +0000 http://www.theoneandtheonly.com/2005/06/06/thoughts-on-apple-moving-to-intel/#comment-1059 The most amusing part of Rosetta, if PearPC is any indication, will be the laptops outperforming the desktops. That is of course assuming the desktops end up with chips of the Pentium 4 / Pentium D variety and the laptops with Pentium M chips. I question if that will be the case though, I can't imagine Apple is going to like their laptops being as low as half the clock speed of their desktops, despite being faster in some areas. In reality I'm guessing they'll hold off on the desktops for the next big chip from Intel, based off the Pentium M but designed for desktops. Of course if anybody's to be unafraid of the 'megahertz myth' it certainly should be Apple. One thing I know for sure, I REALLY hope they don't intend to adopt Intel's nightmare of a new model numbering scheme. The most amusing part of Rosetta, if PearPC is any indication, will be the laptops outperforming the desktops. That is of course assuming the desktops end up with chips of the Pentium 4 / Pentium D variety and the laptops with Pentium M chips. I question if that will be the case though, I can’t imagine Apple is going to like their laptops being as low as half the clock speed of their desktops, despite being faster in some areas. In reality I’m guessing they’ll hold off on the desktops for the next big chip from Intel, based off the Pentium M but designed for desktops. Of course if anybody’s to be unafraid of the ‘megahertz myth’ it certainly should be Apple.

One thing I know for sure, I REALLY hope they don’t intend to adopt Intel’s nightmare of a new model numbering scheme.

]]> By: hink http://www.theoneandtheonly.com/2005/06/06/thoughts-on-apple-moving-to-intel/comment-page-1/#comment-1058 hink Wed, 08 Jun 2005 09:54:32 +0000 http://www.theoneandtheonly.com/2005/06/06/thoughts-on-apple-moving-to-intel/#comment-1058 I dunno, it isn't as shocking as Mac fans are making it out to be; PowerPC's ISA was just out of control, and far enough away from its founding premise that its distinction from x86 was a stretch anymore. Well, that is a tad unfair, both "rivals" had certainly moved towards eachother in the intervening decade. I am also pretty sure that IBM had had enough of Mr. Jobs. what I am really curious about is the efficacy of this Rosetta dealybob, where it sits as far as abstraction, and how good it will be at translating stuff on the fly, though I guess Cupertino is banking on the raw numbers to cope with any chug-chug latency issues it might have. Very interesting. I dunno, it isn’t as shocking as Mac fans are making it out to be; PowerPC’s ISA was just out of control, and far enough away from its founding premise that its distinction from x86 was a stretch anymore. Well, that is a tad unfair, both “rivals” had certainly moved towards eachother in the intervening decade. I am also pretty sure that IBM had had enough of Mr. Jobs.

what I am really curious about is the efficacy of this Rosetta dealybob, where it sits as far as abstraction, and how good it will be at translating stuff on the fly, though I guess Cupertino is banking on the raw numbers to cope with any chug-chug latency issues it might have.

Very interesting.

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