General 04 Jun 2005 11:01 am
C|Net news.com reports Apple plans to announce switch from IBM PPC to Intel
JD’s post caught my attention. It led to an article on news.com indicating that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is going to announce plans to transition their hardware to the Intel platform during his keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference this week.
I’m not sure if this is true, but it sure is interesting news. I would LOVE to have a PowerBook that was even half as fast as my Centrino Thinkpad. My 1.6GHz G4 17″ PowerBook doesn’t even compare to my 1.7GHz ThinkPad T42p - and I’ve been spending a lot of time lately comparing the performance of the two machines.
While I’m at it, what is up with Quicktime 7 performance on the Mac? (I know, I know, Flash Player is slow on the Mac too, and we’re working really hard to speed it up for the next release). I have QTPro and downloaded a few 720p HD movie trailers and NONE of them play back at full frame rates! I’ve tried shutting down all apps before launching QTPro 7, but it still plays horribly. To be fair, it could be something wrong with my PowerBook. I have bad Mac kharma… But I still love my PowerBook, slow as it is.
on 04 Jun 2005 at 12:51 pm 1.Paul Yaconelli said …
Reuters are carrying the story too.
on 04 Jun 2005 at 12:53 pm 2.Paul Yaconelli said …
And the link it didn’t come. Here it is.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8695413
on 04 Jun 2005 at 1:47 pm 3.MT said …
get more ram. it really helps. I went from 512 MB on my 1.5 ghz pb to 1.25 gb of RAM and it really makes it much more bearable. particularly switching apps.
on 06 Jun 2005 at 2:29 pm 4.Brink said …
There is no excuse now not to build the Flash IDE or the complete studio on Linux. X86-64 for everybody. Different toolkit to make it run in Windows, MacOSX, and KDE. The market share of both OSX and Linux on the desktop is around the same.
on 07 Jun 2005 at 11:49 pm 5.Mike Downey said …
> get more ram.
Well, I’ve actually maxed out the RAM in my PowerBook. To be honest, I really think it’s simply CPU speed. I can’t wait for my Centrino-based PowerBook. I hope they rev the PowerBooks first. I don’t need a Mac Mini…
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