Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 21:24:55 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: bsddiy@163.net Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, js43064n@pace.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: So what happens to FreeBSD now? Message-ID: <p05100337b75fdc404cc5@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <2425994267.20010627160101@163.net> References: <200106260901.AA23134284@stmail.pace.edu> <20010626084126W.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <p0510031eb75e868cb1bd@[194.78.241.123]> <2425994267.20010627160101@163.net>
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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).
Granted, there isn't as much choice as to configuration, and you
don't tend to get as many slots (unless you want to buy an older
clone, which can hopefully be upgraded with G3 and G4
daughter-boards).
But I really don't think that there will ever be an x86 version
-- Apple has billions of dollars in the bank right now, and they're
really hurting on the CPU chip side, with Motorola wanting to focus
primarily or almost exclusively on the embedded market, and IBM
wanting to focus on the server market.
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.
Others have said that Apple should take the money and buy out
Palm or Handspring, but I don't think that this is necessary. I
think that they can spruce up that partnership, invest some money in
one or the other company, but allow them to continue as a separate
entity. Apple may not have a hand-held "digital appliance" right now
as something to plug into their "digital hub", but then they also
don't manufacture their own digital video or still cameras, either.
No, this may be an area where Apple could help boost sales, and
produce some really cool technology (a la Newton), but the CPU chip
problem right now is a potential nuclear bomb on their horizon, and
they really need to do whatever it takes to make sure that scenario
simply cannot happen.
But this is just my guess.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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