Some interesting new/quotes.




[QUOTE]In addition, as we speculated, Apple will provide a revolutionary code-translation system, which it calls "Rosetta", to run existing PowerPC applications on the Intel platform, supposedly without great performance penalties. (Transitive Corp., the creator of that unique technology, just happens to have former NeXT President Peter van Cuylenburg as chairman of its board of directors....)

A News.com story quotes Apple marketing VP Phil Shiller about Mac/Windows interoperability on PCs:

Also on Monday, Jobs said the next version of OS X, called Leopard, will be released in late 2006 or early 2007, which he said was the same timeframe as Microsoft's next Windows update, dubbed Longhorn. Microsoft has said Longhorn will be released by late 2006. After Jobs' presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs, saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based Mac. "That doesn't preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They probably will," he said. "We won't do anything to preclude that."

 

Can't wait to build my own Macintel box.

 

DOH.

 

I wonder what they are going to do to prevent someone from installing MacOS X on their own Macintel boxes, and how long it will be before someone finds a hack to work around it.

 

I guess they will leave it up to the masses to up a perfectly working <closed> system!

 

Perfectly working... because there's not a whole lot that works on it.

 

Like what?

 

There isn't much of a chance I'd buy one just now.

 

I was planning to buy a Powerbook within a year from now (or when my current PC dies, which ever comes first ). But I'll have to rethink that now.

 

Lame duck systems.