Let the second-guessing begin!

[standardtom]

So it's true.

Seeing what this does to sales of existing and upcoming PowerPC-based products will be interesting, until each product line can make the transition.

Comments

[ex_bearbong816]

Is this the "Dumming of America" or just their computing tools?

(sigh)

[timksweden]

As long as they're keeping Mac OS, I don't see that which processor they run on makes a big difference in terms of dumbness. But maybe that's just me ;-).

Best,
Tim

[jbear70]

On the drive home I listened to NPR and they were saying that this was a business decision driven by the increasing sales numbers of laptops over desktops. Apparently the Intel chips are designed to run cooler and use less power than the IBM/Motorola ones. Most of the software developers for Apple were happy at this announcement although there were some "boos" at the conference where Steve Jobs proclaimed the new decision today. The developers said they were happy because it didn't matter to them where Apple got it's chips as long as they were getting the best designed chips on the market. I agree with you though that it will be interesting to see how this plays out among consumers.

[standardtom]

Steve's demo today was done on a 3.6GHz Pentium 4, which is supposedly the system they're going to be shipping to developers as the testbed. I think that's still a 32-bit system, isn't it?

My cursory glance over the documentation for Xcode 2.1 hasn't shown anything one way or another yet.

I hadn't even thought about that aspect of it until you mentioned it!

[standardtom]

True. And from a marketing standpoint, it'd be hard to go back and say something like "All that 64-bit stuff we were talking about with the G5? Well, ya know... just kinda don't think about that anymore, kthx!"

[kebinjoonzu]

*giggles* no more PearPC for me!

[standardtom]

oooo, no, CherryOS all the way!!111!!!

[kebinjoonzu]

CherryOS was a blatant rip on PearPC :p duh..

[standardtom]

It was a joke, hon ;-)