From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 7 22:58:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1267016A41C for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 22:58:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from lariat.org (lariat.net [65.122.236.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8B243D48 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 22:58:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from anne-o1dpaayth1.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.net [65.122.236.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA10044; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 16:58:16 -0600 (MDT) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook renders your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.2.20050607165322.07be0da0@localhost> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.1.2 Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:58:14 -0600 To: Miguel Mendez , David Kelly From: Brett Glass In-Reply-To: <20050607214002.4a3b37e8.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> References: <42A4FD3F.70407@pacific.net.sg> <44y89mb1e0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050607175303.GA96525@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20050607214002.4a3b37e8.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: freebsd-chat-local@be-well.ilk.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apple moving to x86 X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:58:38 -0000 At 01:40 PM 6/7/2005, Miguel Mendez wrote: >How so? Apple is a niche market. I find their switch to x86 pretty >depressing actually, although I understand their reasons. Who says it'll be a total switch? I could easily imagine Apple switching to x86 for its lower end products (or even selling MacOS X for PC clones) but continuing to use PowerPC for high end workstations and servers. There's some actual potential to make a profit selling hardware into these niches, whereas there's little or none in the highly saturated consumer desktop and notebook markets. >The boy you trained, gone he is. Twisted by the Dark Side, young >Jobs has become. There is another. Seriously: in many folks' opinion, Jobs *was* the Dark Side and should have done something like this years ago. --Brett Glass