Hell has frozen over

[Michael L Torrie]

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 14:28 -0400, JStay at mediageneral.com wrote:
> Put it this way though - finally, one OS to rule them all that's not
> Microsoft.  Apple, who does it right, and sells PCs, not just the OS,
> will finally use the Intel architecture the way it is supposed to be
> used!  I, for one am excited for this.  Intel processors have advanced
> much further,under much less power than PPC, so I can see huge leaps and
> bounds by apple in the near future.

Yes but Apple was never an OS or software company.  They have always
been a Hardware company.  Do you honestly think they want to take on,
and can take on, Dell+Wintel?  I really don't think so.  The moment
Apple becomes just an OS/Software company is the moment they lose.

I think the G5 kicks the P4's butt in power consumption, heat output and
processing power.  Pentium-M for laptops, though.  that's another story.

Michael


> 
> Jesse 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-bounces at plug.org [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org] On 
> > Behalf Of Michael L Torrie
> > Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 2:26 PM
> > To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List
> > Subject: Hell has frozen over
> > 
> > It has been confirmed.  The next version of the Apple 
> > PowerBook will triple boot Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X natively.
> > 
> > Well, I'm sure the hardware will be special and I hope they 
> > keep OpenFirmware instead of using a crappy intel bios, but 
> > nevertheless, PowerPC is dead.  And honestly, I think this 
> > decision is the beginning of the end of Apple.  I had great 
> > hopes for them.
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