Apple-Intel: Watch the Webcast
Posted by Harry McCracken | Monday, June 06, 2005 4:57 PM PT
Here's a link to a QuickTime Webcast of this morning's Steve Jobs keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference here in San Francisco, during which he announced Apple's shift from PowerPC chips to Intel's x86 architecture. The stream was a tad flaky for me--I assume a
lot of folks are trying to watch it right now--but it seems to be working at the moment. (Via
The Unofficial Apple Weblog.)
Jobs starts off with some plugs for the Apple Stores, the iPod, and Mac OS X; skip to about 00:21:40 if you want to cut to the chase.
Apple on the x86 platform?! This will be a great oppurtunity for PC users looking to try out the Mac platform without having to buy extra hardware. Microsoft better watch their step and be prepared for some serious competition...
I hope apple will continue making and supporting hardware.
I think this is the best move Apple has ever made. I would love to be able to switch to Mac on my laptop. Watch out Microsoft!!!
Please, Please, Please, Steve Jobs, make OS X compatible with PCs. OS Xpc, By-By Microsoft, all your holes and bugs, and totalitarian ways a receding view in the rear view mirror.
While it won't ward of death it can make our time online less trouble free and with less frustration in dealing with your OS company.
About time MS had some real competition. That's why they "got too big for their pants".
Please, Please, Please, Steve Jobs, make OS X compatible with PCs. OS Xpc, By-By Microsoft, all your holes and bugs, and totalitarian ways a receding view in the rear view mirror.
While it won't ward off death it can make our time online less trouble free and with less frustration in dealing with your OS company.
About time MS had some real competition. That's why they "got too big for their pants".
Why is this death for MS? Because Apple is supporting a new CPU? Hello? Apple had a working OS before, so what difference does this make in the software world?
The one thing Apple will probably be able to gain some ground on with this move is the tablet PC market. IBM wouldn't provide Apple with what Steve Jobs wanted, so they went to Intel.
This isn't going to kill MS. Typical Mac Zealots - any news about Apple and "Bye Bye Microsoft!" Right.
I hope now MS must consider to provide the Longhorn as soon as possible to user to remain in the competition.
Yes it is true that will not kill MS ,but it possesses a greater threat to MS than never before.
MS is in trouble
I hope Mac OS 10 (Tiger - Maklar) will be availabel in the market. Sick and tired of viruses from Windows Os
Hi, I am writing from Italy...
Problems are not for MS... yet. Probs are for PC manufacturers. Future Macs will run OS X whateverfeline AND Windows NATIVELY.
No emulation. 100% worldwide software available.
Why buy a common PC when a Mac can run everything?
well, now MS does have more competition since PC users can just install OS X. not that I would do that, but maybe if XI is good.
Ib,
Mac OS will NOT run on PCs, it will run on Apple machines only. Meanwhile Windows will be allowed to run on Apple machines too, plus UNIX, plus Linux, natively.
I work on both platforms...
and believe me X is already VERY good, while XP is barely sufficient. IMHO.