Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:34:40 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: So what happens to FreeBSD now? Message-ID: <20010628103439.C9802@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <p05100337b75fdc404cc5@[194.78.241.123]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:24:55PM %2B0200 References: <200106260901.AA23134284@stmail.pace.edu> <20010626084126W.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <p0510031eb75e868cb1bd@[194.78.241.123]> <2425994267.20010627160101@163.net> <p05100337b75fdc404cc5@[194.78.241.123]>
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Brad Knowles said on Jun 27, 2001 at 21:24:55: > At 4:01 PM +0800 6/27/01, David Xu wrote: > > > Too far to believe that MacOS X will have an X86 version. I don't want > > to buy Apple's expensive Hardware. I prefer to use cheap X86 hardware > > and has same or better performance and many choise. > > Mac hardware has become much less expensive in the last few > years, and in my experience tends to be pretty price competitive for > the same amount of performance (witness the fact that the closest > competing laptop to the new iBook is almost $1000 more). Where did you get that figure? It seems to me that you can get a laptop from Dell, with comparable or better features, for a price lower than the cheapest iBook (say $1200). > My best bet is that Apple will take some or all of this money and > buy out Motorola's participating in the PowerPC chip consortium, or > at least buy themselves the rights to design their own PowerPC chips > and then have Motorola, IBM, or some other company actually handle > the fabrication. Chip design needs a quite different kind of expertise from assembling machines or writing operating systems. Does Apple have it? Especially to keep up with the gigahertz wars between Intel and AMD? However, it seems IBM continues to be interested in PowerPC, and certainly has the expertise. I'm not sure Apple needs to get its hands dirty with that. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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