Confirmed: Apple WILL use Intel chips in 2006

Reuters ^ | 6/5/05

[A CA Guy]

I got this a while ago and it was a 1.2 gig chip for a cpu.

Today the $99 has a 1.8 gig chip and it might be Linspire, I haven't checked that close in the last 9 months.

[theFIRMbss]

>They will also be running windows soon as their operatings system. LOL

"One CPU to rule them all,
One CPU to find them,
One CPU to bring them all
And in the Windows bind them"

[Mr. Jeeves]

I'll bet Apple has OS/X for Intel already built, tested and ready to release. They've probably been maintaining an Intel version of the OS all along, ever since the NeXTStep purchase. They were just waiting for the right moment to switch.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I am pretty happy with Xandros, another Linux Distro, use it exclusively for my web browsing......no spyware problems.

Have another machine, running Windows XP Pro , I occasionally
use ....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

So how are they going to replace the AltiVec unit function?

I think that is what it is called.

[general_re]

...the Apple license requires the use of Apple hardware, doesn't it?

Possibly. I'd have to look through the license, but it may be that it specifies "only for use on approved Apple hardware" or some such.

Any reason you know of they haven't tried to shut Pear PC down?

No idea, unless it's because Pear PC is still too raw to actually be useful to anyone ;)

[A CA Guy]

I happy to post here in Fr with my widows 3.1 with the 1200 baud modum...

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

You still haven't said which linux it was.(which isn't as important at this point....)

If it reminded you of windows 3.1, then it had to be a few generations old, even when you got a hold of it. So I'm not surprised.

[A CA Guy]

It was on the PC already from Frys. I never threw the disk out from it, but can't recall which version it was.

It was probably the most modern one a year ago for a PC.