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Originally Posted by hacker
Lets be clear on this one point.. Steve never said he was moving to x86, he consistently said he was moving to Intel. Yes, Intel provides x86 today, but they've also mentioned the desire to move away from it, but remain backwards-compatible.
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Interesting. I didn't notice it, but yes, you're right, the
official press statement doesn't mention x86 anywhere. This may leave room for speculation. I still believe the new chips will be x86, based on the following three premises:
- Steve said that they've had OS X running on the x86 for the last 5 years.
- The Developer Transition Kit is an Intel Mac with a 3.6Ghz Pentium 4 CPU.
- You ain't going to see a Mac mini with an Intel Itanium ($$$) inside.
But this is no sufficient proof of course. I am very hopeful Apple with their talents and Intel with their resources will deliver a very compelling design for Mac OS. Interesting discussion
