8 Jun
2005
8 Jun
'05
5:33 a.m.
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:36 -0400, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
My question is: Given the ability of upcoming Intel
(and AMD) CPUs
That was in interesting point raised in an article that I saw; why did
Apple go for Intel and not AMD? AMD chips tend to be cheaper, plus they
seem to always be slightly ahead of the game when it comes to
performance and innovation (which seems to fit in more with Apple's
roots).
self-virtualize seamlessly, how long will it take for
someone to hack up a
"preboot" supervisor layer which will support OS X on a garden-variety PC?
Have Apple said that they're going to run on PC-like hardware? I
*thought* their only comittment was to x86 chips and that nothing's been
said about system bus, support chips or other architecture. In which
case there might be substantial differences between Apple hardware and a
cruddy PC that'd mean a big rewrite / bodge of a lot of the OS to get it
to work.
It'll be interesting to see what some of the bigger Linux vendors do.
Gnome and KDE are both horrible bloated messes in comparison; I wonder
if any of the bigger vendors will push to design a decent desktop
environment on top of Linux.... (here's hoping)
cheers
Jules