Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 19:00:57 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Freddie Cash <fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apple moving to x86 Message-ID: <20050609190057.5ab76960@vixen42.local.lan> In-Reply-To: <200506091257.11988.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> References: <20050608212440.EDE1520F01@krell.webweaver.net> <200506091126.57072.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> <86psuvxqma.fsf@xps.des.no> <200506091257.11988.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca>
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On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 12:57:11 -0700 Freddie Cash <fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> wrote: > 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". Just did a quick search and it looks like AMD does make some ethernet hardware. But video and and audio would be a problem. > 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.
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