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The adoption of Intel chips does not mean the Mac will become an x86 box. Intel is expanding her business to produce Mac compatible chips. Thus the Mac will remain a unix box for all intents and purposes.

Please remember that the difference between Macs and PCs lies not just in the software, but in the hardware as well.

The fact Apple is going to Intel based CPUs tells me Apple expects an expansion in business. It does not mean Apple is dropping the hardware, or going to DOS architecture.
 

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Well, all indications are currently that they will essentially be a standard intel box with some sort of apple specific security chip to prevent OSX from running on non apple machines. One of the main advantages apple is likely to garner from moving to the intel chips, is the ability to use the system chip sets (like nForce SLI Ultra, or intel 475 chipset) that they have had to develop for themselves.

Granted that developer machines aren't necessarily a great guide to what the final products are going to be like (re: Xbox 360 - G5 dev kits), but the ones currently up are very generic. The eventual Ap-tel machines will probably be something like Sun's x86 hardware.

Re: Power5 chips - I wouldn't hold out any hopes for them producing anything at a consumer level. Any resources they'd have would be devoted to producing and refining the Power derived chips for the next gen consoles. In fact I suspect that this is one of the reasons that Apple dumped the PPC architecture chips.
 

Here's a good Ars technical article ananlyzing a likely processor roadmap for Apple's Intel switch.

http://arstechnica.com/columns/mac/mac-20050608.ars

The Macs will essentially be x86 boxes that will possibly be able to run Windows (though Apple won't help you do it). Intel isn't making a chip specifically for Apple; using chips developed for the PC market at large is part of Apple's strategy.
 

Add me to the group. I'm a Mac user since 1993 and I'm very happy with my iBook waiting to upgrade it next year with an Intell based machine. I'm not much of an actual gamer this days, but you cannot have everything.
 

Wow, I should have looked in this forum earlier. 12" Powerbook owner here, looking forward to a Centrino iBook in the future. ;)
 

Hello,
another Mac-user here. My current inventory includes two Ibooks, a white G3/600 Mhz and a clamshell G3/366Mhz (I also have an old Powerbook 540 and an ancient LC II, but I'm going to give those away any day now).

I'm currently using the "Icebook" during gaming sessions with Sovelior-Sage's excellent HTML-version of the SRD. I have also recently installed PCGen to keep track of my character.

I also have some drawing/painting tools that I use for RPG stuff sometimes, but no "real" fantasy mapmaking applications. If I ever decide get a more modern Ibook or perhaps a Powerbook G4, I will problably give Dundjinni a shot.

Cheers,
Meadred
 

Here !

Debian & Mac OS X on Powerbook G4.

Other then that.. I have Linux WebServer, Linux Firewall , Linux Home Office Machine and an XP box (never used..) at the house.
 

THREAD NECROMANCY!!

Man, I can't believe it's been a year.

Anyway, just thought I'd share that I just got a MacBook Pro at work. It is a kickin' fast machine. And incredibly stable. I LOVE it.
 


Steve Jung said:
Nice. Did you get the black one?
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Nope. Those are the MacBooks. I have the Pro, which is still the titanium finish (or whatever the case is made of these days).

It is quite the sweet machine.
 

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