[ale] Dvorak Says

[aaron]

I can't imagine what Dvorak's reasoning is.

All the processor switch means is that it will be
easier to install Linux onto Mac OSeX boxes! . :-D


Though extreme and a bit strange, expanding Mac access to commodity AMD / 
Intel CPUs might be a good move. There are a lot of aspects to OSeX that  can 
ease the transition, including the x86 heritage of the FreeBSD layer at the 
core of the OSeX and most of its API's. For the hardware side, Apple has 
already migrated most of their system interfaces to functional commodity 
standards like USB, IEEE-1394, SATA, EIDE and PCI.

On the other hand, the timing of jumping onto x86 CPU's right now could be 
really bad. The commodity architecture seems to be running into some hard 
walls  in transistor density, speed, and price / performance ratios. It may 
well be that any near-future leaps in computer performance are more likely to 
come from new and novel multi-processor and FPGA architectures that will 
inevitably leave x86 thinking in the dust. Seems to me that Apple's present 
manufacturing and architecture control puts them in an ideal position to 
capitalize on new hardware innovations. Unless they keep some Mac system 
aspect highly proprietary, a total switch to commodity CPU's could also 
dissipate Apples control over the integration of hardware, OS and software 
that presently provides all the added value of Mac systems in terms of 
reliability, real user support, fully integrated Multi-media and general ease 
of use.

In any case, it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

peace
(because the only secure nation is a nation at peace)
aaron





On Tuesday 07 June 2005 19:27, Randal Jarrett (K4RSJ) wrote:
> From /.
> 
> 
> Apple: Dvorak Says Apple Move to Intel Will Harm Linux	
> 
> 	
> Posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 07, @11:28AM
> from the speculative-fortunetelling dept.
> Deep Fried Geekboy writes "John C. Dvorak is pretty quick off the blocks
> with a response to the news that Apple intend to switch to Intel
> processors. Thankfully, he doesn't gloat about having called this one
> correctly, but says that the move is likely to hurt Linux, as OSS
> developers increasingly target the Mac. Since it now turns out that
> Dvorak was apparently not smoking crack when he predicted the Apple
> move, could he be right on this one too?"
> -- 
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