An Intel Apple?

100!!!

I'd be happier if it was an AMD CPU..

That timecanada post has been removed so I made a ripped mirror of it. This includes a picture of the funky new imac.
http://24.69.0.145/new-imac.html

I can't comment on Mac OSX as Ive never used it but theres one thing Apple DOES do better than others is industrial design. They've put out some of the coolest looking systems/peripherals ever.

Apple's not going to Intel, because if they do, then the only difference between them and other PC's would be the OS, and Microsoft does not want to see OS X on Intel -- End of Office, Internet Explorer, for Apple systems, and Microsoft would do a heavy push to get people to "upgrade" to some Windows version that would have an OS X compatiability layer.

I think the industry would be a lot better off if Apple would just go away. They fragment the market and waste human resources.

Just look at id spending time with an Apple port. Now if they could dedicate all that effort to the win32 port, I think it would be a lot better off.

Case in point -> http://www.bluesnews.com/plans/279/

Coding on Doom3? Nope, dicking around with an Apple patch.

http://timecanada.com/story.adp?storyid=1

There it is: a flat-panel iMac G4 with DVD Burner and iPhoto starting at $1299. There's also a pic of it on the main page.

Mac lovers have nothing on Mac haters when it comes to mindless zealousness. I'm amazed at some of the Neanderthal
statements in this thread.

didn't Apple make some kinda PDA back in the early to mid 90's? somehow or another i remember someone having a PDA that flopped and i thought i remembered it was Apple that released it...

Is this thing going to be webcast tomorrow?

If they went intel/amd and dropped their prices I would buy a mac. Not sure what i'd use it for but I'd probabyl get one :)

doubt it true, but it'd be kinda silly if it was, "Hey! lets move away from this proc that's efficient but sucks 'cause it doesn't scale well to a proc that scales well but sucks 'cause it's inefficient!"

Let's lay down some speculation here. I've been following this Apple thing closely.

LCD iMac - a given. Will most likely have a screen that can be unplugged from the basestation and carried around your house as a webpad, wirelessly communicating with the main computer part. Gates expected to announce something similar at CES in his keynote that night. Jobs moved his keynote from Tuesday to Monday because of it's "impact" - so this is quite likely.

iWalk - the biggest fakedy fake fake you've ever seen. If you can't see that in the videos, you need help. Not to say that Apple aren't going to release a PDA, but that's a market in serious trouble right now - so not a good time for Apple (the invented the product genre, isn't that enough?). This also means buying Palm (another rumour) is probably a bad idea.

iPhoto (or iPicture) - Similar to iTunes, iMovie and iDVD, but for your pictures. A free, simple, art program. Fills in a gap in Apple's lineup (music and video, but no pictures?) and in development for a while. Apparently pisses off Adobe quite a lot because they think less people will buy Photoshop, but you'll probably see it tomorrow.

AppleWorks - Apple's very own Office killer. Cheap, simple, does everything most people require in an office suite. Been around for a while, but I think an upgrade could be on the cards.

PowerMac's with G5 processors - 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6GHz. Would be surprised to see faster. Wouldn't be surprised to see them announced tomorrow and shipping from Feb 1st.

iBook - processor upgrade, combo-drives as standard. Different colours a possibility, but that would surprise me.

Intel CPU's - Highly unlikely. Would mean a total shift in business strategy. Would no longer be a hardware company, but just a software company competing on level ground with Dell, Compaq etc instead of in their own market. Would also be competing with Microsoft and Windows with OS X. Which means Microsoft would pull Office, which they can't afford (unless they do release a new AppleWorks that can read all the Office files). Moving away from Motorola to IBM is also unlikely, as IBM are only just touching 1Ghz with their G3 chips, while Motorola should be up to 1.6 in production with their G5's (and soon way beyond 2Ghz).

Secret Product - There'll be something new tomorrow that nobody expects. Not a PDA. Not a digital camera. Not quite sure what, but it'll be cool.

Phew.

If they move to x86 they will have to move again to Itanium / Sledgehammer (64 bit CPUs)

That would be two moves in a short period of time

Not a good idea IMHO

Ah the juju of masturbation...no switches can save Apple. It is dead. Cutesy crap and attempts to go to "easier" things such as Intel are a skin's band-aid on internal bleeding. Until they ditch their complete domineering system of control, Apple will always be a has been.

APPLE? HAHAHAHAHAHAHkahkall...!!!!!!!!!!!!111

Apple made a console. They called it the APPLE-SEED

<cue dramatic orchestra drums>

It is all happening as I have forseen:
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=2666783 and
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=2666790

I don't see the switch going from motorola to intel as making apple a software company only. They can still make a proprietary system using less expensive components. It's the proprietary aspect that makes apples good.

this will change our lives. Cities will be built around it. You don't need to convince people to buy this....it will just happen.

Not fucking likely. The hardcore apple fans would throw a "BUT IT ISN'T RISC!" Shitfit, even though Motorola CPUs are hardly pure RISC anymore, and Intel/AMD CPUs are hardly pure CISC anymore. Apple knows the only way they're gonna stay alive is on the whims of the hardcore Apple fans that nitpick shit like that.

"Considering how hyped up Apple seems to be about things (more so than usual) the announcement of a LCD iMac or a PDA just doesnt seem deserving, there could be something more." <-- Steve jobs was the first one to blow the lid on IT and say IT would "CHANGE TEH WORLD!" Fuck what Apple and their execs get hyped over. They're morons that can market well just because they believe their own hype.

Blind, all of you!
It's an Apple + Segway. After all, Jobs was raving about it "going to change the way cities are built in the future" or something like that. I'm sure Jobs meant segways with Apples in them, and those LCD screens are going on the segway too.

This could be the death knell for Apple.....this would further join it to the PC community, and could possibly eliminate the Apple platform in the next decade.

Here's hoping.

I hope so. It could potentially make the market very complicated, and complication is fun.

Seems like the next logical step for Apple, compete with Microsoft on the OS level and the PC's open ended architecture (considering that the rumors are true). More then likely it will be some proprietary Intel chip, connected to Apple branded mainboards, to maintain its distance from the WINTEL community. Like it or not, apple still has one of the fastest video sub-structres around (2D), which is why most companies like them for creating publishing content etc. On the flip side, this might be Apples one last twitch before it dies completely. Without information all we can do is speculate.

Apple making a game console!!!

mmm...nahhhhh..

It's almost certain they have something besides an LCD iMac planned that no one has guessed or at least taken seriously. I dunno about intel based stuff, though, they spent a good deal of the last Macworld trying to convince everybody that higher clocked x86 chips sucked compared to PowerPC, I have a hard time believing that they'd switch to the platform they spent so much effort brainwashing their disciples to think it was inferior.

moving to intel meaning intel pr is so damn corrupting they want everyone who doesnt use their garbage to dig this nice dissolution that intel is heading straight into the ground

the possible implications from somthing like this are beyond nutty!

everyone better sell teh amd stock pronto!!!!!!!!1111 ps: they gonna go broke!!! eehehehe

Moving to Intel meaning they switch to x86?

Um, it would make more sense if Apple was announcing a version of OSX compiled and can run on both Intel and Athlon and use Athlon for hardware sales, especially given Apple's somewhat anti-intel slant.

what happened to the first post?

IBM is already working on a chip, the Sahara or whatever

Apple + Amd = * GOLD *

3rd post!!!!

Bong.