Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 12:57:11 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apple moving to x86 Message-ID: <200506091257.11988.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <86psuvxqma.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <20050608212440.EDE1520F01@krell.webweaver.net> <200506091126.57072.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> <86psuvxqma.fsf@xps.des.no>
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On June 9, 2005 12:43 pm, you wrote: > Freddie Cash <fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> writes: > > If they went with AMD processors, then they would have to either > > build or find someone to build a chipset. > FYI, AMD makes chipsets. Yes, and some nices ones at that, especially on the server side (our new dual-Opteron boards use AMD 8xxx chipsets). But they don't make motherboards, they don't make audio/video chipsets, they don't make ethernet chips, and they don't sell everything all nicely packaged up as a single "platform". I'm not saying that's definitely why Apple went with Intel. But it does make sense, if you think about it for a bit. Going with Intel gives Intel a place to show off their "complete platform solutions", and gives Apple a single configuration to code for. Going with AMD would require too much work on Apple's part to get everything working together, and would be a pain to certify the hardware configurations as "Designed for Apple". This way, they just say that MacOS X will only run on Centrino2 laptops, whatever the desktop equivalent of Centrino will be called, and they're done. Intel takes care of the hard parts for them. -- Freddie Cash, CLCP CNCP Network Support / Helpdesk School District 73 (250) 377-4357 fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca
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