Ted
It would be nice if you could at least get your "facts" straight
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On Nov 15, 2005, at 6:15 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
On Nov 14, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
A lot of people wondered how Steve Jobs could dare change over to
Intel
chips.
In Steve Jobs keynote speech announcing the big move Intel chips
was
just about entirely stated as because of the 'performance per watt
ratio' of Intel CPUs. Check out the picture of the key note speech
and
look at the bottom of the picture with Intel and IBM's PowerPC
processor.
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/tradeshows/2005/WWDC/
perfperwatt.jpg
This is a bunch of whitewashing as anyone in the tech industry
knows.
Wrong. WHat jobs said was exactly correct
Jobs changed over to Intel for two reasons. First, because Intel
gave
him a better price on the CPU's.
This is also a consideration. Price always is/
However, the main reason was that the performance they needed at the
wattage they needed (for laptops) was not on the horizon for PPC.
The G5 can compete against the Intel desktop offerings but there was
not a laptop G5 coming any time soon [because of energy dissipation)
and the G4 for laptops was not cutting it.
Rubbish. They could simply use Intel for laptops until IBM got it
together.
Or signed a letter of intent which would prod IBM. There is nothing
inherent
in the design of the G5 that makes it so that you cannot make low
power
and low heat versions of it.
Ted. Apple did play some games to try and prod IBM. And your
assertion that they could use Intel for laptops until IBM got its act
together is hysterical. Glad you aren't running Apple or any other
real company. You want them to commit to a much more expensive 2-
architecture strategy indefinitely? That makes a lot of sense. IBM
was not interested in making a G5 caliber chip made for laptops.
There was nothing in their roadmap and nothing technology wise they
were showing. Intel has some nice laptop chipsets and cpus. It is
difficult and expensive as is to do a multi year transition and keep
support of PPC machines for the sveeral years that they will be doing
so after the transition.
It probably was technically feasible to come up with a G5 caliber
laptop chip but IBM was not interested for someone as "low volume" as
Apple. They are much more interested in XBox 360 , Playstation 3 and
Nintendo evolution.
Other computer manufacturers have no problems using different CPU's in
their products.
Name one major manufacturer in the same market as Apple that has an
indefinite long term strategy of multiple CPUs. I can only think of
Big Iron like Sun and IBM.
Second because doing this instantly
obsoletes the older power PC macs thus pushing all the Mac users to
fork over money for new software and hardware.
Wrong. Conspiracy-Ted at it again.
But of course you have no answer to the software obsolescence issue.
There is no software obsolescence issue. Besides making it quite
easy to port software to OS X Intel for most people, since the
underlying OS and libraries is the same, Apple has invested a ton of
money into the Rosetta technology which allows PPC software to
continue to run on the Intel boxes. And they are also still
introducing PPC machines for a while and will continue to support PPC
machines for several years so as to avoid the problem.
Once again typical Apple apologizing. When Apple dumped MacOS Classic
in favor of MacOS X, all the Apple proponents who for years were
saying
that MacOS was the best OS in existence, didn't let the door hit
them on
the
ass on the way out of the mac Classic room.
????? classic MacOS (OS 9) was good for the market it was competing
in but could not last forever. Apple has the Classic compatibility
in OS X and for a few years after OS X was introduced continued to
introduce new machines that support OS 9 natively. I can still run
lots of my System 7 apps on my G5 under Classic today... no software
obsolescence and nothing to worry about hitting me in the ass.
When Apple dumped Motorola
in favor of IBM all the Apple people who for years had been
claiming that
Apples were so much better because they held their value over the
years
while PC's didn't, conveniently forgot that now the resale value of
the
68k
Mac was zero.
Dude, you have no idea what you were talking about. The PPC Mac was
introduced in late 93 and 68K based Macs still had value (including
resale) for a long while (I know as I sold one then). Your good on
making crap up but bad on facts and history.
What I think is the biggest joke is that you Apple guys worship the
ground
that Jobs walks on like he's Apple's Savior, Jobs can do no wrong
is the
mantra.
Jobs can do wrong. But he has been a lot more successful than you or
most any other industry executive over the last 7 years. I give the
guy a break most of the time since he has a track record.
Yet to the non Apple-colored-eyglasses computer industry, the
guy
is just as money-grubbing profit-grubbing as any other.
Actually not. I don't like the guy personally, but I respect where
he has taken Apple and the way he has given Apple new life. Just FYI
-- He had a $1 salary at Apple for a long while. He did take some
stock grants and options after turning the company around. You like
to spew for venom and to you everything is a conspiracy or everyone
but Ted is a zealot.
This is a guy
that didn't
even know that FreeBSD was one of the bases of MacOSX and was telling
people it was built on -LINUX- for crying out loud.
??????????????? Who are you talking about?
Btw. FreeBSD is NOT one of the "bases" for Mac OS X. Mac OS X did
inherit the FreeBSD userland and add in a BSD kernel compatibility
layer compatible with FreeBSD. But Mac OS X is based on OpenStep
which was a mach based BSD personality (pre FreeBSD) OS.
Jobs switched CPU's to get a whole lot of you guys to dump you
"holds its
resale value" hardware in the ashbin, and run out and give a lot of
money
to
Apple for the latest and greatest Intel gear, as well as help out
all the
software
ISV's writing software for MacOS X by giving them a reason to prod
all of
you
into buying software upgrades. And you can't get enough of it!
Simply
amazing!
Apple is working exactly like Microsoft these days yet you all
think it's
still better!
Ted the conspiracy man. Spewing forth his BS. Ted. You don't have
a clue of what you are talking about.
I guess one of these days when General Motors finally gets stick of
propping up
Saturn (Saturn has never turned a profit since it was founded) all the
Saturn
owners who think they are 'different kinna car people' will be saying
that
Chevrolet is a 'different kinna car' Cast from the same mold you all
are.
Ted
Ted, reading your stuff would be humorous if it wasn't so sad. You
are pretty smart guy in technical matters. Too bad you are such an
ass otherwise.
Every person who wants FreeBSD to adopt a real logo is a right wing
Christian wacko.
Every person who uses OS X is an Apple Zealot who worships the ground
Jobs walks on.
That is the world according to Ted Mittelstaedt.
Stick to answering technical posts Ted. You are good at that. Lay
of the conspiracy crap that your fevered mind makes up.
Chad
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