For Mac heads - QuickTime stream of Job’s WWDC keynote.

Is available on Akami’s network - skip to 23 minutes in for the bombshell, and the reasoning behind. Lots of theories on why they are doing this.

The most plausable is that Apple have seen IBM’s roadmap for the PPC chipset and it doesn’t compete with Intels on bang-per-watt (not bang-per-buck!) - for laptops and portable devices, bang-per-watt is the important metric. Apparently IBM are more interested in the larger-volume XBox360 and PS3/Cell chip fabrication commitments so Apple were feeling a little unloved.

(The other theory is they moved because of the Pentium D, and it’s built in DRM. I’m not so sure that is a good enough reason to make such a risky migration - surely IBM could have developed a similiar capability for the PowerPC chipset?)

My opinion? It’s a Good Thing.

Tuesday, June 7th, 2005 mac

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