Extra info/onderbouwde speculatie voor bij het Apple & Intel nieuws item...
(Of maak er een nieuw item van, ook goed
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Bron: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050609.html
Eerst loopt Apple met de nieuwe G5s de P4s af te kraken, en nu ineens is de G5 te traag?
Question 2: What happened to Apple's 64-bit operating system?
[Hier heeft de autheur het mis, omdat de Pentium D wel 64-bit aankan]
Question 3: Where the heck is AMD?
Question 4: Why announce this chip swap a year before it will even begin for customers?
ERG sterk punt: Deze te vroege aankondiging gaat ze kosten, een deel van de potentiele kopers zullen hun koop nu (minstens) een jaar uitstellen...
Question 5: Is this all really about Digital Rights Management?
Als Intel zelf al aangeeft dat het van mening is dat DRM thuishoort in software, ga je toch afvragen of dit eigenlijk wel iets te maken heeft met de switch...
De conclusie die Robert Cringely trekt is verassend, maar gezien z'n onderbouwing zeker aannemelijk:
(Of maak er een nieuw item van, ook goed
Bron: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050609.html
Question 1: What happened to the PowerPC's supposed performance advantage over Intel?The crowd this week in San Francisco at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference seemed mildly excited by the prospect of its favorite computer company turning to Intel processors. The CEO of Adobe asked why it had taken Apple so long to make the switch? Analysts on Wall Street were generally positive, with a couple exceptions. WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE!? Are these people drunk on Flav-r-Ade? Yes. It is the legendary Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field at work. And this time, what's behind the announcement is so baffling and staggering that it isn't surprising that nobody has yet figured it out until now.
Apple and Intel are merging. [...]
Eerst loopt Apple met de nieuwe G5s de P4s af te kraken, en nu ineens is de G5 te traag?
Question 2: What happened to Apple's 64-bit operating system?
[Hier heeft de autheur het mis, omdat de Pentium D wel 64-bit aankan]
Question 3: Where the heck is AMD?
Niets extra's aan toe te voegen.If Apple is willing to embrace the Intel architecture because of its performance and low power consumption, then why not go with AMD, which equals Intel's power specs, EXCEEDS Intel's performance specs AND does so at a lower price point across the board? Apple and AMD makes far more sense than Apple and Intel any day.
Question 4: Why announce this chip swap a year before it will even begin for customers?
ERG sterk punt: Deze te vroege aankondiging gaat ze kosten, een deel van de potentiele kopers zullen hun koop nu (minstens) een jaar uitstellen...
Question 5: Is this all really about Digital Rights Management?
Als Intel zelf al aangeeft dat het van mening is dat DRM thuishoort in software, ga je toch afvragen of dit eigenlijk wel iets te maken heeft met de switch...
De conclusie die Robert Cringely trekt is verassend, maar gezien z'n onderbouwing zeker aannemelijk:
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Then what is the driving force?
Microsoft.
Here is my analysis based on not much more than pondering the five questions, above, and speaking with a few old friends in the business. I won't say there is no insider information involved, but darned little.
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Microsoft comes into this because Intel hates Microsoft. It hasn't always been that way, but in recent years Microsoft has abused its relationship with Intel and used AMD as a cudgel against Intel. Even worse, from Intel's standpoint Microsoft doesn't work hard enough to challenge its hardware. For Intel to keep growing, people have to replace their PCs more often and Microsoft's bloatware strategy just isn't making that happen, especially if they keep delaying Longhorn.
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.
Intel is fed up with Microsoft. Microsoft has no innovation that drives what Intel must have, which is a use for more processing power.
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[ Voor 3% gewijzigd door JumpStart op 13-06-2005 13:41 ]
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