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<blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 2357488" data-attributes="member: 149">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.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rackhir, post: 2357488, member: 149"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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