1. 09 June 2005

    1184 days ago

    PBS | I, Cringely . June 9, 2005 - Going for Broke

    Could Apple befriending intel be more then we all think?

    Enter Apple. This isn’t a story about Intel gaining another three percent market share at the expense of IBM, it is about Intel taking back control of the desktop from Microsoft.

    So Intel buys Apple and works with their OEMs to get products out in the market. The OEMs would love to be able to offer a higher margin product with better reliability than Microsoft. Intel/Apple enters the market just as Microsoft announces yet another delay in their next generation OS. By the way, the new Apple OS for the Intel Architecture has a compatibility mode with Windows (I’m just guessing on this one).

    This just keeps getting more exciting.

    via Kjell Olsen1184 days ago

  2. 08 June 2005

    1185 days ago

    Picking up the pieces: John Siracusa mourns the Power PC : Page 1

    What really happened?

    Jobs wasn’t a fan of IBM, they didn’t meet his expectations – and partly because they’ve nettet big contracts for game consoles.

    For a “visionary” CEO of an innovative company, nothing’s worse than having your fortunes tied to another company. If you’re a bit of a control freak, it’s even worse. If you’re Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, you can hardly contain your seething resentment.

    Apple has always used exotic chips, and not the conservative widely used chips. That had upsides, being apple could tailor the chips it used to its specific needs, but downsides too:

    Apple’s been hit by the downsides too, of course. Fewer resources behind each CPU line can mean higher prices, technical stagnation, and CPUs that are not designed primarily to meet Apple’s needs. So here we are at the end of that road. It was a valiant effort, but Apple has thrown in the towel.

    Q: Will future Macs use Pentium 4 CPUs like Apple’s x86 developer kit announced today?
    A: Probably not. I expect Apple to start with Intel’s next generation of multi-core CPUs. Hannibal will have more to say about this issue.

    Q: Is Microsoft worried that every Windows user is suddenly a potential Mac OS X user if Apple ever decides to give up or de-emphasize its hardware business?
    A: You bet your ass they are. Don’t believe the hype. Microsoft worries about everything, and this is more than a little blip on their radar.

    If all goes as planned, the Mac platform will be stronger in a couple of years than it is today. (Who knows, maybe Doom 4 will even get decent frame-rates.) I’ll buy a multi-core, multi-CPU x86-64 Mac and I’ll like it because it’ll be fast, good-looking, and it’ll run Mac OS X. But I’ll still think of what might have been…and what someday might be again. Call me a hopeless romantic. I’ll miss the PowerPC.

    via Kjell Olsen1185 days ago

  3. 06 June 2005

    1187 days ago

    WWDC 2005 - Live Coverage of Keynote || The Mac Observer

    Wow. Wow. Wow.

    Rosetta will allow PowerPC compiled apps to work on an Intel Mac. It’s completely transparent, and does not require a separate emulation environment.

    I don’t know whether to love or to hate apple – on one hand, intel could probably make chips just as well as IBM – but to get my hopes up like that for a G5 powerbook… And then just snatching it back from me! I don’t know what I’ll do now, I was looking to get a laptop for this summer, but I don’t want a G4 now that apple has an entirely new processor.

    via Kjell Olsen1187 days ago

  4. 05 June 2005

    1188 days ago

    Daring Fireball: Intel-Apple Odds and Ends

    It strikes me as not-outlandish that this was a planned leak. Friday afternoon, three days before the start of WWDC — what better time to ignite widespread interest in the keynote address? On Friday morning, no one was talking about WWDC; by Friday night, everyone was.

    Gruber has one dollar on Intel producing powerpc chips for apple. But this story is really out of hand.

    via Kjell Olsen1188 days ago

  5. 30 March 2005

    1255 days ago

    One Small Step For Hand [The Present Tense - BME/News]

    Microchip implants to simplify boring stuff like using keys and credit cards is already starting to happen, which is really cool.

    Well, because I’m writing my own software and soldering up my own stuff, pretty much anything I want. Well, more accurately, anything I have the time and inspiration to do. Ultimately though, I think true keyless access will require an implantable chip with a very strong encryption system; right now I’m only looking at this type of thing in a personal context.

    The chip itself is only $1.50, and I was able to get a 125KHz sensor/reader for $50, so the total project cost so far is about $60 with shipping and everything.

    I’ve always wanted to do something like this – but maybe with a bluetooth phone so you don’t have to have a chip implanted under your skin. Way too cool.

    via Kjell Olsen1255 days ago

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