13 Responses for "Steve Jobs WWDC Keynote"

1. Scrivs

   June 6th, 2005 at 1:52 pm

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   I found this site to be the best:

   Macobserver

2. MacGeek

   June 6th, 2005 at 2:01 pm

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   MacRumors has a live page that automatically refreshes every minute.

   MacRumors WWDC Coverage

3. cliche

   June 6th, 2005 at 3:53 pm

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   Smart move by Apple in many ways, but I just can’t picture a powerbook with the ‘Intel Inside’ sticker.

4. Firefly D

   June 6th, 2005 at 4:18 pm

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   As one who just switched from Microsoft, I feel a little let down. It’s like finding out my new girlfriend is a crossdresser.

5. Jeremy Flint

   June 6th, 2005 at 4:21 pm

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   It actually makes a little sense to me. IBM has failed to deliver a 3GHz PowerPC processor. Also, the Intel processors run cooler than the PowerPCs,which is one reason why you haven’t seen a G5 Powerbook yet.

6. coolkamio

   June 6th, 2005 at 4:31 pm

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   correction:
   It’s a 3,6Ghz P4 not 3,2 :P

7. cameron (desk003)

   June 6th, 2005 at 5:07 pm

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   Isnt one of the selling points for the PPC that it doesnt bottleneck the data exiting the processor, where the p4 does, ie:

   ppc: | data v |
   p4: \ data v /

   (| | vs. \/)??

   At least that’s how I understood it. That’s how they had the image showing on the powerbook or ibook page a few years ago. Not anymore though.

   Anyway, I’m mad at them for switching. Does this mean PPC (G4s and G5s) wont run the new OS’s or Apps, or if they do, they’ll have to do some sort of emulation and make it slower, or, make the developers make two versions and then you’d see that the devs would only make the version that they had. Don’t you think?

8. Jeremy Flint

   June 6th, 2005 at 5:12 pm

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   They are going to release some emulation software called “Rosetta” (nice name) that will allow PPC apps to run under the Intel.

   As for the bottleneck issue, they may not be planning on using Pentium 4 processors. Intel could be developing a modified version for the Mac to use.

   It wasn’t clear if this transition meant that you could run OS X on any old Pentium based computer.

9. cameron (desk003)

   June 6th, 2005 at 5:29 pm

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   They say in http://www.macobserver.com/article/2005/06/06.16.shtml that it’s a p4… I doubt it’s any p4, I bet they make a specilized version. Apple would lose lots of money if they don’t. Then people would just buy OS X and put it on their current p4.

10. cameron (desk003)

    June 6th, 2005 at 5:29 pm

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    http://www.macobserver.com/article/2005/06/06.16.shtml
    oops, I thought that’d auto-link.

11. Kent

    June 6th, 2005 at 6:33 pm

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    Note they said that the Apple Intel boxes will be able to run Windows. But not the other way around.

    As a die-hard PC user who uses OSX at work, I would think very seriously about buying an Apple box to be able to run both…

    As long as Apple can keep OSX off normal PCs, they’ve just opened up a huge market.

12. cameron (desk003)

    June 6th, 2005 at 9:41 pm

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    The thing that makes me wonder is that they dont say that software compiled for intel will run on the ppc chips. That’s whats making me think about waiting to get my powerbook.

13. Renee Cousins

    June 7th, 2005 at 11:22 am

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    New software will be compiled in a form they’re calling Universal Binaries (UBs) (remember fat binaries with both PPC and 68K code?), and aparently it’s going to be relatively trivial for third-party vendors to release recompiled code in this form (with the new release of X-Code 2.1). So long as they continue building UBs and not switch to pure Intel code, then I can see PPC systems sticking around for a while yet, and running Leopard just fine!