OK, we all know Macs will be using Intel chips soon but what we don't know is:
1. Will we be able to run Windows with no performance hit on the new Macs as well?
2. Will the new Macintel offerings sport a proprietary chipset or will we see dual boot OS X/Windows machines?
3. If software can be compiled for PowerPC and Intel at the push of a button, what's to stop Apple using PowerPCs at a future date if the IBM roadmap changes? Will the Xserve's transition to PowerPC take longer than the rest of the product line, for instance? Are we seeing the birth of a platform-independent OS?
I downloaded Darwin from the Apple site a while back and had no problem installing it on a spare x86 box which I have been using as an Apple File server ever since. Guess you could call it Darwindows. What next?
1. Will we be able to run Windows with no performance hit on the new Macs as well?
2. Will the new Macintel offerings sport a proprietary chipset or will we see dual boot OS X/Windows machines?
3. If software can be compiled for PowerPC and Intel at the push of a button, what's to stop Apple using PowerPCs at a future date if the IBM roadmap changes? Will the Xserve's transition to PowerPC take longer than the rest of the product line, for instance? Are we seeing the birth of a platform-independent OS?
I downloaded Darwin from the Apple site a while back and had no problem installing it on a spare x86 box which I have been using as an Apple File server ever since. Guess you could call it Darwindows. What next?