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Macs with Intel Inside

Tue, 06/07/2005 - 21:19 — Daniel

It is official that Apple will be switching to Intel-manufactured CPUs in 2006. This change comes as little surprise to many. IBM's G5 PowerPC chips were great in the Mac G5s, but the architecture of the chip absolutely forbids its use in PowerBooks, iBooks, Mac Minis, and was limiting in iMacs. The processor runs way too hot and thus requires more cooling than can be fit in any sort of portable format. Xserve was hard enough. These new chips will not be Pentiums, but probably some almost-compatible variant of PowerPC. Macs in 2006 will effectively be G6s. Software must be recompiled or even rewritten, and a lot of hardware will have to be redesigned in order to communicate with the new CPUs. With this much-anticipated partnership between Apple and Intel, I recommend they rename these new Intel-Inside Macs: MATTEL

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Tue, 08/30/2005 - 23:49 — Visitor

Re: renaming, bad idea

Re: renaming, bad idea because: a) Apple and Intel are both of higher caliber companies than Mattel ever hopes to be, b) where'd the extra "T" come from? Mac and Intel... only one T, c) it makes them sound like toys. Now, you could use what most everyone else is using and call them "MacIntel" because: a) It has "Macint" already in one of the products, and "int" in the other, b) it has three syllables like Macintosh, c) it sounds more like Macintosh, and d) it doesn't make them sound like toys. :-P

Tue, 08/30/2005 - 17:42 — Visitor

Sweet.....love the new site.

Sweet.....love the new site. So I guess I should go out and buy and mac right now huh? ;-) lol

Sat, 10/22/2005 - 21:37 — Artcles & Blog by Daniel J. Lewis » Blog Archive & (not verified)

[...] Terminology will get so

[...] Terminology will get so hard when the Mattels are released. It hasn’t been “Mac vs. PC” for several years because both platforms are PCs (”personal computer”), “Mac vs. IBM” really never applied after computers stopped being called “IBM-compatible” and it was further undefined when Apple switched to IBM for the G5 CPUs, I hear many people refer to it as “Mac vs. Intel” but that obviously won’t apply after Mattels are sold, and with the hardware trends and Linux popularity, you really can’t even say “Mac vs. Windows” anymore in reference to a system’s hardware configuration. [...]

Wed, 08/31/2005 - 02:16 — Daniel

All humor gets lost when

All humor gets lost when technical details are brought up. :) Makes it sound like a toy? Maybe that was part of my point. According to SlashDot, Apple has already applied for a trademark on "MacIntel," but I think that sounds ridiculous.