[Tfug] Mac and Intel

[James Brigman]

Potentially: the architecture of the Mac itself will also play a role in
O/S and driver compatibility. North Bridge/South Bridge, PCI bus, video
adapter, drive interfaces, BIOS, etc. It's possible that the only thing
a mac would have in common with a PC would be the CPU itself.

On the other hand, my 2 cents is that the announcement means more than
just "Intel Inside". I think the announcement means "we can get generic
Intel-based mATX or NLX PC motherboards for something like $20 in
quantity, and we want a slice of that pie, so we're going to put a PC
inside a mac and make a boatload of money just before Jobs cashes out
and goes to live on a south pacific island somewhere...:-)

I'm not sure how Apple's marketing types view the concept of a Mac
running Windows. I figure there's going to be some form of
incompatibility built-in such that a Mac won't run Windows. That could
theoretically be done with only BIOS changes, such that Apple could buy
a generic PC motherboard, but would need the custom BIOS code to run the
O/S.

JKB

On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 22:05 -0700, waydecgutman at robsoncom.net wrote:
> If I am reading this right, when Mac has Intel inside in 2006/2007, it 
> wouldn't mean that it is x86 compatible, right ?
> 
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