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intel based powerbooks?

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug
so we are talkin about a few more months? if thats the case, i can wait
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6 months or more. I would frankly wait up to a year because they're sure not to get it right the first time.
 
the intel processors aren't due out till next summer. And IIRC, its going to be in the desktop models first, so who knows, might not be till late 06 for the powerbooks
 
Originally posted by: Dark Jedi
the intel processors aren't due out till next summer. And IIRC, its going to be in the desktop models first, so who knows, might not be till late 06 for the powerbooks
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Last I heard, desktop models last, and Ibooks and Mac Minis first.
 
Wait to see the next Powerbook revisions, cuz they are certainly wayyyyy overdue. Then you can make a sound decision on whether to wait or not. Since these next revisions will be the last for the PPC books.
 
Apple just secured a large supply of G4's from motorola/freescale. They likely won't switch to intel on laptops anytime soon.
 
My friend is buying a Powerbook and he came for my geekly advice and he wants it so bad he is going to pay $ 2000 for it , he is still a junior at college, I was like get a nice IBM Thinkpad T43 for $ 1249 or a R50e centrino for $ 849 like me and put Fedora Core 4 on it, and an OS X theme and your done. But he is like iLife this and itunes that and started spewing all that MAC stuff on me, so I told him to give me a couple of days before I give him an advice, about either waiting for an intel based one or go ahead and get the PPC one.

I was thinking that PPC have already a load of supported software and it's going to take so long for the intel powerbooks to go out, and when they do they are going to be buggy and software support is going to suck for a while just like any other type of transitions it needs time to mature so I am going back today to give hime a green light for a PPC one, am I correct ?
 
The reason, I believe, for the G4 orders is for a few smaller applications and for falling back. How about a mac mini used for home theater? ..and to use for when a G4 breaks down under warranty
 
Originally posted by: The Linuxator
I was thinking that PPC have already a load of supported software and it's going to take so long for the intel powerbooks to go out, and when they do they are going to be buggy and software support is going to suck for a while just like any other type of transitions it needs time to mature so I am going back today to give hime a green light for a PPC one, am I correct ?
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Developers (including myself) already have access to Intel Macs, and are developing software for them already. So far it seems pretty stable. It's a simple matter of just clicking a couple of checkboxes (like anything on OS X 😉) and then recompiling to get both PPC and Intel code into the same executable. So, I'm pretty sure that there will be plenty of software for the Intel macs by the time they come out (ther already is quite a bit). There just won't be as much as there is for PPC (i.e. the older software that was PPC only).
 
Originally posted by: hopejr
Originally posted by: The Linuxator
I was thinking that PPC have already a load of supported software and it's going to take so long for the intel powerbooks to go out, and when they do they are going to be buggy and software support is going to suck for a while just like any other type of transitions it needs time to mature so I am going back today to give hime a green light for a PPC one, am I correct ?
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Developers (including myself) already have access to Intel Macs, and are developing software for them already. So far it seems pretty stable. It's a simple matter of just clicking a couple of checkboxes (like anything on OS X 😉) and then recompiling to get both PPC and Intel code into the same executable. So, I'm pretty sure that there will be plenty of software for the Intel macs by the time they come out (ther already is quite a bit). There just won't be as much as there is for PPC (i.e. the older software that was PPC only).
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I know developers such as yourself will get the job done before they are released but the older software is what I had in mind of not being recompiled again but most probably the popular ones will get patched up easily if checking 2 boxes in an IDE is all what it takes.

 
The transition to x86 will take place from spring '06 to summer '07. Most think that the consumer products (iBook, eMac, iMac) are going to be the first x86 Macs. Personally I guess the Powerbooks will be the second last product line, earlier only than the Power Macs (Towers), maybe winter 06/07.

The Linuxator: But the powerbooks are at the end of a product cycle ( http://buyersguide.macrumors.com ). I would really wait at least for those if possible!

All PPC applications will run in the legacy environment "Rosetta" (similar to OS 9 support in OS X I think) with G3 performance (obviously there is no Altivec support). And the developers face very different amounts of port work to do depending on how their application was written.

Cruise51: The contract was about that Freescale will produce if Apple needs more G4 CPUs until 2008 or so, if I remember correctly.
 
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