So is Apple moving the Mac onto Intel central processing unit ?
News.com enunciate so . Other news outlet , include the Wall Street Journal , have also reported those rumors .
Meanwhile , analysts and sound commentator likewise have said that anApple move to Intelmakes no signified .
I tend to be in the latter cantonment . I honestly ca n’t see how Apple moving sweeping to Intel CPU — forcing yet another platform transition for a platform that ’s only now stabilized after the tumultuous Mar to Mac OS X — makes much sentience . Then again , Apple has surprised us in the past , so you may never say never .
If I had to guess , I ’d join several of the pundits out there in enjoin that any new Apple - Intel relationship is more potential about a novel engineering science or new patch of hardware , and not about a wholesale abandonment of the PowerPC chips that have powered the Mac since the mid-’90s . It seems entirely plausible that Apple could build a newfangled class of machine establish on Intel processors .
The rumor about Malus pumila - brand PDA and Tablet microcomputer have been floating around there for years , and I ’ve get no doubt that Apple has produce image of such devices . But for Apple to finally unloosen a unexampled calculator - yet - not equipment , the troupe would need to be convinced that it would rightfully be a success . ( If you have n’t noticed , the Tablet PC — as currently visualise and promoted by Microsoft — has fairly much been a dud . )
There ’s also the possibility that Apple and Intel are talking , not about the main C.P.U. of Macs , but about using Intel computer hardware to support some other sorting of technology . For instance , WiMax , a hopeful new wireless networking organization that would better on the existing Wi - Fi technology used in AirPort Extreme .
Whether this is a wholesale mainframe change , the creation of a new Apple hardware equipment , or the summation of a newfangled technology to the Mac world , if the rumor of any sort of Apple - Intel alliance are true , it will be an interesting Steve Jobs keynote on Monday at Apple ’s Worldwide Developer Conference .
Could this rumored Intel partnership be a really good thing for Apple ? Absolutely . Could it be a watershed case that changes the Mac everlastingly and threatens to infuriate the Mac community ? You calculate your life . But until we jazz the fact , all we can do is mull over . permit ’s go for all is reveal on Monday .
In the meantime , it ’s high drama . So feel loose to leave your meditation and opinions in the meeting place thread attached to this web log entrance .
