News: Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006

[Bryce Whiteside]

Couldn’t find a live stream of the keynote, but found the best text coverage at macworld.com. Just hit your refresh every so often.

https://www.macworld.com/news/2005/06/06/liveupdate/index.php

Inquiring minds watching h*ll freezing over…
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

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[Matt Lemos]

I need a shower after this news. Betrayal doesn’t even begin to describe this and it’s for Hollywood no less. Don’t those people get it that no matter how many times the try to come up with the latest Copy Guard someone is always going to find a crack for it. Get over it already, the rest of us producing stuff have a long time ago.

Also I am not convinced that Intel can handle the Graphics required for the Mac Platform. They never have been able to before.

[Mel Matsuoka]

[MATT LEMOS] “I need a shower after this news. Betrayal doesn’t even begin to describe this and it’s for Hollywood no less. Don’t those people get it that no matter how many times the try to come up with the latest Copy Guard someone is always going to find a crack for it. Get over it already, the rest of us producing stuff have a long time ago.

Also I am not convinced that Intel can handle the Graphics required for the Mac Platform. They never have been able to before.”

“Betrayal”??? That’s completely ridiculous, and something only a completely deluded Macintosh “fanboy” might say.

First of all, Apple did not do this to appease Hollywood. Intel’s foray into DRM enabled processors may be a fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on your viewpoint) bonus for them, in that it opens up iTunes for digital video content distribution. However, this change is all about staying competitive, simple as that. If Apple had stayed with it’s lackluster G5 architecture for much longer, it would surely have spelled the death of the platform as a viable alternative to the Wintel hegemony.

As far as not being convinced that Intel “can handle the Graphics required for the Mac platform. They have never been able to before”, all I can say is, what have you been smoking, and can I have some of it? 🙂

Graphics processing has been superior on the PC side of things for many years now. The bevy of high-performance, low-cost graphics cards available on the PC puts the Mac to shame. And as far as raw processing power is concerned, I am a heavy user of both After Effects and Photoshop on both our Dual G5’s and PC’s (I’m completely platform agnostic…computers are just tools to me), and the performance on our Windows machines are noticeably better than our G5’s. I wish that wasn’t the case, because as a FCP editor, I’d prefer NOT to have to switch platforms as part of my workflow, but I can’t deny that AE works better on Windows, and so I use it.

Aloha,
mel