Comment Dumbest Post Ever... (Score 1, Troll) 834
Point by point this has got to be the most inacurate article I have read in a long, long time.... Someone please tell me that this was a huge joke... but for those who think this is serious, let me take it down, point by point:
1) SSE3 is no AltiVec, but its not like SIMD instructions arent supported by x86 CPUs. Its a small price to pay for the many advantages of leaving PowerPC behind. And who is to say that this new relationship will not give Apple more say as to what Intel includes in SSE4...
2) Flat out wrong, wrong, wrong. Intel already sells desktop 64bit CPUs, cheap ones too.. and by the end of the year you will be able to buy a cheap Celeron with EM64T... does this guy have a clue?
3) Sure... AMD's roadmap is better than Intels... sure... thats why SOOO many x86 laptops have that cool new fast, low heat, low power AMD CPU.... Oh wait! They dont! Apple's #1 complaint to IBM was getting the G5 laptop ready, IBM didnt deliver, AMD has just started to compete in the laptop world, yet Intel has the well known Centrino line that can provide longer battery life and lower heat output than the best G4 laptop Apple makes today. I am sure I will piss off some AMD fans by saying this but AMD is not the chosen company of CPU makers. They still have a long way to go before they are really competing with Intel, so why would Apple once again choose the smaller company, its failed them before, why take the chance again?
4) Sure, lets make every single Apple developer from Adobe to Joe Coder sign an NDA, no one will leak it, not a chance... Lets see, tens of thousands of NDA's, one person lets something slip, and poof, its all over. Apple gains its power from its amazing marketing abilities. It would NEVER chance letting Joe Coder be the one to break the big news. It would rather roll the dice, take its chances on sales, but be the one to break the news FIRST.
5) Wrong, Wrong, Wrong... Anyone who has taken 5 minutes to read up on LeGrande Technology knows that it is so very different from the P3 CPUID concept that created that huge stir. Will LeGrande cause some people to wonder about privacy? Sure, but mostly it will be the OS's implementation of LeGrande that will define its use. It will be Apple or Microsoft who will define just how the hardware will be used, and thus define the privacy policies that people will have to ponder. Intel with LeGrande is just trying to offer software developers to say "this code is trusted", which could mean DRM, but could also mean less viruses, less security issues, safer computing for the end use as well as for the high end servers.
As for IBM matching the Intel or AMD roadmaps... lets see, IBM sold its Laptop/Desktop unit a few months ago, has not pushed to make the G5 laptop ready, considers Apple a high priority client, so where the heck is the desire for IBM to "match" the Intel Roadmap... I dont see one, do you?
In conclusion... WTF! This has to be a joke... because no minimally aware person could ever write this and believe it.
1) SSE3 is no AltiVec, but its not like SIMD instructions arent supported by x86 CPUs. Its a small price to pay for the many advantages of leaving PowerPC behind. And who is to say that this new relationship will not give Apple more say as to what Intel includes in SSE4...
2) Flat out wrong, wrong, wrong. Intel already sells desktop 64bit CPUs, cheap ones too.. and by the end of the year you will be able to buy a cheap Celeron with EM64T... does this guy have a clue?
3) Sure... AMD's roadmap is better than Intels... sure... thats why SOOO many x86 laptops have that cool new fast, low heat, low power AMD CPU.... Oh wait! They dont! Apple's #1 complaint to IBM was getting the G5 laptop ready, IBM didnt deliver, AMD has just started to compete in the laptop world, yet Intel has the well known Centrino line that can provide longer battery life and lower heat output than the best G4 laptop Apple makes today. I am sure I will piss off some AMD fans by saying this but AMD is not the chosen company of CPU makers. They still have a long way to go before they are really competing with Intel, so why would Apple once again choose the smaller company, its failed them before, why take the chance again?
4) Sure, lets make every single Apple developer from Adobe to Joe Coder sign an NDA, no one will leak it, not a chance... Lets see, tens of thousands of NDA's, one person lets something slip, and poof, its all over. Apple gains its power from its amazing marketing abilities. It would NEVER chance letting Joe Coder be the one to break the big news. It would rather roll the dice, take its chances on sales, but be the one to break the news FIRST.
5) Wrong, Wrong, Wrong... Anyone who has taken 5 minutes to read up on LeGrande Technology knows that it is so very different from the P3 CPUID concept that created that huge stir. Will LeGrande cause some people to wonder about privacy? Sure, but mostly it will be the OS's implementation of LeGrande that will define its use. It will be Apple or Microsoft who will define just how the hardware will be used, and thus define the privacy policies that people will have to ponder. Intel with LeGrande is just trying to offer software developers to say "this code is trusted", which could mean DRM, but could also mean less viruses, less security issues, safer computing for the end use as well as for the high end servers.
As for IBM matching the Intel or AMD roadmaps... lets see, IBM sold its Laptop/Desktop unit a few months ago, has not pushed to make the G5 laptop ready, considers Apple a high priority client, so where the heck is the desire for IBM to "match" the Intel Roadmap... I dont see one, do you?
In conclusion... WTF! This has to be a joke... because no minimally aware person could ever write this and believe it.
