It's true... Intel Macs

Not sure what to think yet.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=130651

Noooo000ooooo00000oooo0000!

lol omg jk

Nos.

Well I watched the key note a few hours ago and apparently OS X has always been compatible with PowerPC and Intel. Watch the Keynote it is rather interesting (about an hour long) I enjoy watching those silly things.

Yeah, can someone clarify this for me a bit more. *ahem* Deker, are you around?
I'm in the process of saving up for a Powerbook that I've wanted for quite sometime.
Should I? Should I not?

What meaneth all of this? Intel Macs? What's going on....what is this all about?

I'm confused, does this mean something like Macs will be similar to PC's or something in that area or what?

Will Apple no longer be a leader but more like a follower? Are they selling out? Can someone clarify for me?

Thanks a million!

a lot of its still up in the air, but here's the general idea:

apparently for the last 5 years apple has been compliling and running all of its operating systems on intel cpu's as well as macs, OS X has always had an intel version ready to do. what apple is planning to do is sell macs with intel cpu's rather than the ibm powerPC chips they've been using. OS X will run just like it always has on g4 and g5 boxes, to the end user there really won't be a difference. what it will allow for is faster cpu speeds, increased performance overall, and hopefully lower costs for the end user. apple has said that OS X will not be able to be installed on non-apple machines, meaning they'll be some sort of firmware or maybe a specially designed intel chip that their machines will use.
a summary of the keynote with more info here: http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/06/06/liveupdate/index.php

if you're looking to get a mac in the next couple months go for it, it's gonna be a while. if you're looking at 6 months out or more then i'd hang out and see what starts to present itself around then.

chris

I don't have any more information than any of you guys do about it. The only information that I've seen on the Apple Intranet about it is the same press release that is on www.apple.com/pr/

I haven't seen anything where Apple has said 100% for sure that OSX won't run on say, a Dell yet. 'Cause I can really only go on what's in the press release.

yup, it has been said by one of the apple VP's, i'll track down the quote.

chris

from MacCentral:

"Apple also confirmed that they would not stop customers from running Windows on the Intel-based Mac, although the Mac OS will not run on another PC."

chris

I'm just afraid that load times will be slower. I saw someplace that Photoshop will load slower but supposedly work as fast. If the load times are slower I'm afraid everything may slow down since it will basically be on a different architecture. A lot still has to be seen. I think right now there are just too many gray area's.

Personally down the road I think this will be a positive. Faster and cheaper price wise. I just hope the faster does not take years to develop and optimize. It took apple years to get where they are at now. The only good note is it sounds like they have been planning this so hopefully they are already ahead of the game.

I am stickin' to my IBM run Mac but hoping that the new versions of OS X will still be compatible - aside from the fact that it runs on both chips.