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Should Apple also port OS X to AMD 64bits chips?
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Now that Apple finally understood that PPC were a dead platform for the future shouldnt Apple also port it AMD 64bit chips so that it doesnt get stuck with INTEL?
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The thing is, they're technically porting to the CPU architecture of x86, which is not brand-exclusive, so they could theoretically use AMD chips any time they wanted to. They just went with Intel.
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Seeing what went on at WWDC, the choice to use Intel or AMD all depends on who can roll the bigger red carpet in front of Apple, and today it was Intel.
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i seems like the could use AMDreal easyly but intel seems like its only intel for now
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Originally Posted by anamexis
The thing is, they're technically porting to the CPU architecture of x86, which is not brand-exclusive, so they could theoretically use AMD chips any time they wanted to. They just went with Intel.
They will definitely be adding some 64-bit chip to the lineup eventually. The Universal Binary Programing Guidelines define x86 as a 32-bit platform, which means it won't be replacing the G5s, something else will. And the reason they're going with Intel is that Intel makes better laptop chips than AMD, and laptops are where Apple needs the more immediate boost.
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Originally Posted by nonhuman
They will definitely be adding some 64-bit chip to the lineup eventually. The Universal Binary Programing Guidelines define x86 as a 32-bit platform, which means it won't be replacing the G5s, something else will. And the reason they're going with Intel is that Intel makes better laptop chips than AMD, and laptops are where Apple needs the more immediate boost.
This is true, but Intel has announced that it is adopting the AMD 64-bit architecture, so we come across the same identical platform issue anyways.
Also, I wouldn't overgeneralize it by saying that laptops are the only reason that Apple is switching to Intel; if that was true, they would only switch their laptops to Intel.
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Intel adopted AMD's 64-bit architecture a while ago. All Pentium 4 models 630 and higher (which start at 3.0GHz) are 64-bit. Intel's 64-bit architecture is the same as AMD's, if you port to one, you've ported to the other.
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Not a Power Mac topic.
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