Apples on Intel

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENI CONNOR ON SERVERS
06/14/05
Today's focus: Apples on Intel

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Today's focus: Apples on Intel

By Deni Connor

It's official: Apple said last week it will dump IBM PowerPC and
Freescale Semiconductor processors and start using Intel
processors in its Macintosh computers.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the move last week at the
company's Worldwide Developer's Conference in San Francisco.

While Gene Munster, senior research analyst for Piper Jaffrey,
says the decision is a positive one long-term, he says there are
short-term disadvantages.

"There are clearly risks to transitioning to a different
processor, with the most visible being the possible pushback by
the developer community, as the move will require programmers to
rewrite some applications," says Munster in a research note
published last week.

Long term, Munster says Apple will gain a consistent supply of
processors, be able to bring Macs closer in price to competitive
PCs and attract a larger community of developers who will write
applications for the Intel-based Mac.

Users will see Macs running with Intel processors by the end of
the second quarter next year. A complete transition to Intel
will happen by the end of 2007.

Jobs calls the move to Intel a major transition for Apple. He
cites two others - Apple's move from Motorola 68000 processors
to IBM's PowerPC in the early 1990s and the company's
introduction of the Unix-like Mac OS X operating system in 2001.

Apple will offer software to help developers convert their Mac
applications to run on Intel. Jobs says, however, that users
shouldn't hope to have Mac OS X run on other Intel platforms.
The company's developers have jiggered the operating system so
that it will recognize non-Apple hardware.

The company will also ship a program call Rosetta to let
PowerPC-based applications run on Intel-based Macs. This program
will likely affect the performance of the machines running it.

Apple has been developing on Intel hardware for several years,
says Jobs, who detailed parallel Intel/PowerPC development
efforts at the company.

Jobs highlighted IBM's inability to deliver processors that
could run at 3 GHz and its inability to create a low-power chip
for laptop computers as reasons for Apple's move to Intel.

RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS

Apple confirms shift from PowerPC to Intel
IDG News Service, 06/06/05
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/060605-apple-mac.html?rl

Apple builds a better Xserve
Network World, 01/11/05
http://www.networkworld.com/nlservers1098

Advanced technologies muddy software licensing
Network World, 06/13/05
http://www.networkworld.com/nlservers2581

Apple swaps IBM for Intel processors
Network World, 06/13/05
http://www.networkworld.com/nlservers2582
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To contact: Deni Connor

Deni Connor is a Senior Editor at Network World covering
storage, Unix, Novell, Macintosh and IT in Healthcare. You can
reach her at <mailto:dconnor@nww.com>.
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