Bob Dove wrote:
Apple X86? Why??? What's wrong with Motorola?
From the news.com coverage:
"As for why Apple was making the shift, Jobs pointed both to past problems and to the PowerPC road map, which he said won't deliver enough performance at the low-power usages needed for powerful notebooks.
Two years ago at the same conference, Jobs introduced the first G5-based Power Macs and promised developers that the company would have a 3GHz PowerMac within 12 months. The company still doesn't have a machine that fast. "We haven't been able to deliver," he said. Nor has Apple been able to introduce a G5-based laptop--something Jobs said "I think a lot of you would like."
Things weren't looking better in the coming months, Jobs said, saying that IBM's PowerPC road map would only deliver about a fifth the performace."
Linux users switching to OSX (Unix) - again why? You guys seem to have a strong grip on Linux with bags of O/S to choose and run, and WINE already available to you for your Win apps why bother with OSX?
Cheaper Shake licenses for one. (Shake being an Apple product which runs under OS X) - the Linux version is actually more expensive. I'm also sure that Pixar's Renderman has cost savings if used with OS X, but I'm not too sure on that.
Regards,
Martyn