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TMCNet reports that Apple has helped reshape Intel’s thinking.
“”They push us to think about things that we may not always think about,” said Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s sales and marketing group, who is quoted in the article. “We were hoping for that to happen and that certainly happened.” More …
The notion that Apple might partner with a startup chip company – or even start its own – was the subject of much conjecture in the last few years, as Motorola stopped delivering meaningful performance upgrades. But there was a grain of truth in the speculation, Geek.com reports.
Moreover, despite IBM failing to keep its side of the G5 bargain, Apple almost stayed with PowerPC, the article says.
There are flaws, but Apple was right to rush their Intel Macs to market, Tom Yager of Infoworld opines in a piece republished at LinuxInsider.
Yager road tests the Core Duo MacBook Pro and iMac and is happy to see that Apple hasn’t farmed out the, er, farm to Intel. As with the PowerPC G5 Macs, Apple designed the mobo, but left the processor to IBM. Similarly, Intel does heart, but Apple does the brains with the MacIntels. As Yager notes, the iMac, Mac Mini and MBP are “assembled from best-of-breed components selected by Apple, leaving Intel to supply primarily the CPU and chipset.”
According to IDG, at Intel Corp’s Spring Analyst Meeting this week, chief executive Paul Otellini said the company will launch its new microarchitecture, which will include chips for notebooks, desktops and servers, beginning in June. More …
This update addresses reliability of keyboard and mouse functionality in Intel Macs
Continuing on a theme from his previous two columns, Robert X. Cringely is still predicting that Apple will replace the Mach kernel in Mac OS X 10.5 because it’s slower than the kernels in Linux and FreeBSD. more …
A very good read from TidBITS
“For a Boot Camp installation, leave your network cable disconnected.”
“Windows XP is notorious for being infected immediately after a new installation, before the user has time to install system patches. Windows XP Service Pack 1 installations have been reported compromised in as little as 4 minutes after being placed on a standard DSL connection.”
Macs Only has benchmarks of XP running a MacBook Pro compared with a HP laptop, with the comment that ” As you can see, the MacBook Pro held its own, even with the similarly equipped Hewlett-Packard laptop packing twice the RAM.”
While we have been successful in-house with all of the Apple sanctioned Windows XP Mac drivers, there are a few limitations that are currently inevitable as outlined in Knowledge Base article #303572
engadget has a QuickTime movie of XP booting on an Intel-based iMac.There is some doubt until the check for $7,000 is delivered (for the first to boot XP on an Intel Mac), yet it is pretty convincing.
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