![]() ![]() Or another analogy: Your average PC is a Camry, the Mac version is an ES300. Would you pay an extra $100-200 for a machine that's elegant, quiet, and made of sturdy materials? I'd consider it. ![]() I can't see Apple holding the same price premium as they have in the past (on the desktop side, at least- their laptops are more or less competitive in everything but processors). Of course, Apple will also end up having to field calls from irate Dell users wondering why OSX won't install on their systems. Going A64 or opening up the software for use anywhere would mean having to support ATi's, nVidia's, VIA's, SIS's, and hundreds of other off brand chipsets. On the Intel side, Apple will have to worry about just what Intel produces. Currently, Apple only has to worry about three processors, and most likely one chipset for each (G3, G4, G5). Support is far too big of an issue for Apple to deal with opening up OSX to the rest of the world. If I buy an Intel based Mac and want a faster processor a year or two down the road, I don't need to buy a new Mac anymore, I'll just look towards NewEgg for a $150 Pentium. Currently, the processor upgrade market for Macs is relatively small, as upgrades are literally hundreds of dollars (a 2.0 GHz G4 upgrade costs something like $400-500, if I recall correctly). Sadly, I can still only see hardware sells get smaller. I would actually be even more impressed if Xcode could compile universal binaries for OSX PPC, OSX X86, *and* Windows X86. Small, quiet, fast, *and* can dual boot OSX and Windows. aliasfox - Tuesday, Jlink I personally would be impressed if Apple released a Dothan based Mac Mini for ~$499 at MacWorld Paris (September).The OS will ship sometime in late 2006 or early 2007, around the same time as Longhorn. Leopard won't be talked about at the conference this year, but it will next year. The preview version will be available for download today.Īlso, later this week, Apple will have shipped their 2 million th copy of Tiger, which has been shipping for 6 weeks now and has 16% of all Mac OS market share:Īlthough Steve Jobs didn't go into much detail, he did announce that the next version of the Mac OS would be Mac OS X 10.5, codenamed Leopard. ![]() ![]() Later today, Apple will be previewing Quicktime 7, with H.264 support, for Windows PCs. The support is quite widespread throughout the new version of iTunes and in Apple's usual style, it is quite easy to use. Steve Jobs demo'd iTunes 4.9 with support for Podcasting. Even I found myself feeling shocked by the announcement that the rumors, in fact, were real.īefore we get to the details of Apple's Intel transition, here are some of the highlights from the start of the keynote: The crowd was already expecting what was to come:ĭespite the expectations, the announcement was still quite shocking. Hosted in the Moscone West Convention Center, the same venue as Intel's IDF just a few months prior, Apple made the most ground-breaking announcement in their history - the move to Intel processors starting in 2006 and almost complete by 2007. Over 3800 developers will attend this year's WWDC, making it similar in size to IDF from a couple of years ago. This is the first year that we have covered Apple's World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote, but it will definitely not be the last. ![]()
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