OT: RE: Apple Goes Intel...

I'm not trying to get anyone into a X vs. Y debate. I just that any differences or advantages of a non-PC desktop architecture today pretty much ARE irrelevant. Unless, of course, someone invents something with never-before-realized, can't-live-without advantages. The last such product In late 2000 or early 2001 - I forget which - I interviewed Marc Andreeseen about his latest company, Loudcloud (now Opsware). Asked him how someone could figure out the next killer app. He pointed out that new ways to achieve existing results won't cut it -- what's needed are ways to achieve new and better results. LOL, unfortunately, he followed that with a lame comment about how he didn't necessarily have those ways, but that Loudcloud could help its customers enable them. -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Cameron Kaiser Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:57 PM To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: OT: RE: Apple Goes Intel... Don't be disingenuous. This isn't about Mac vs. PC (which your comment is about); it's about the Mac architecture gradually losing any distinctiveness and by dint of this fact becoming just another PC architecture -- ostensibly an incompatible one at that, if Schiller's comments are to be believed. The same fate that befell SGI's transition to x86 is waiting for Apple. -- ---------------------------------- personal: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Floodgap Systems Ltd * So. Calif., USA * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- In memory of Greg Morris ---------------------------------------------------