Brandon (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jolinn) wrote,@ 2005-06-07 00:46:00 |
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Hell freezing over: Part 2
Biked for 35 minutes
So, as expected, Jobs announced today that Apple would be moving to all x86 chips over the course of the next two years, and did so by running it on a p4 3.6 Ghz machine.
As he said, OS X had been leading a .. double.. life:
http://simonwoodside.com/weblog/200
This little snippet is from the project manager from Marklar, who gives us a little bit of insight into Apple culture and what went into making it happen. Crazy to think that the project kept itself sustained over five long years -- kinda makes you sad we didn't see it sooner.
Also interesting is the reaction of various people: I thought it was a really neat thing that they were moving to a chip that could more easily run Windows apps, might be cheaper, allow for faster laptops, the possibility of hacking OS X to run on any old Intel system.... On the other hand, the big Mac people I knew were a lot more dubious, and worried about things like direct competition with Microsoft, Intel's failure as a 64 bit architecture provider, how no one will be able to hack their motherboard, how it will be awful for everyone porting apps, blah blah blah.
While some of those concerns are real, it seems like a lot of it is at least to some extent fueled by the sort of religious mania against Intel let flourish over the past decade.
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In the interim, let me recommend a cool OS X tool which has really begun to impress me:
Quicksilver
More on that later.
Biked for 35 minutes
So, as expected, Jobs announced today that Apple would be moving to all x86 chips over the course of the next two years, and did so by running it on a p4 3.6 Ghz machine.
As he said, OS X had been leading a .. double.. life:
http://simonwoodside.com/weblog/200
This little snippet is from the project manager from Marklar, who gives us a little bit of insight into Apple culture and what went into making it happen. Crazy to think that the project kept itself sustained over five long years -- kinda makes you sad we didn't see it sooner.
Also interesting is the reaction of various people: I thought it was a really neat thing that they were moving to a chip that could more easily run Windows apps, might be cheaper, allow for faster laptops, the possibility of hacking OS X to run on any old Intel system.... On the other hand, the big Mac people I knew were a lot more dubious, and worried about things like direct competition with Microsoft, Intel's failure as a 64 bit architecture provider, how no one will be able to hack their motherboard, how it will be awful for everyone porting apps, blah blah blah.
While some of those concerns are real, it seems like a lot of it is at least to some extent fueled by the sort of religious mania against Intel let flourish over the past decade.
*
In the interim, let me recommend a cool OS X tool which has really begun to impress me:
Quicksilver
More on that later.
