Apple finally launched Intel laptops

Shame they arn't AMD, but nevertheless it appears apparent that apple are now porting to x86!

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebO...nclm=MacBookPro

did you hear about the kid who fell asleep with the headphones in his ears after he got an ipod for chrismas, and when he woke up the next day, he was deaf,

fucking apple, too high a max volume

Fuck, that for real?! wish my I-pod would stay on long enough to make me deaf, shitty battery packs in so soon its frustrating.

I love the look of apple computer and that, really want an apple desktop.

Karl wins the award for totally irrelevant post

Keep to the topic gaiz.

Hahah this is such a retarded argument

My first generation iPod still lasted 8 hours on a charge when I got rid of it, my shuffle lasts 12-14 and so does my nano. How fucking long do you need to listen to music at one time?

x86! wholy fuck

Apologies gman for straying off topic

As for the new intel Macs I am drooling over that new MacBook Pro AND the new iMac... looks as if all of the new Macs are going to use dual core Intel chips. That's damn sexy.

gman: for good info (hype?) on the Mac/Intel thing, go to apple.com/quicktime and look in the Quicktime Guide for Steve Jobs' presentation at WWDC '05. He talks about how they have had an Intel version of Mac OS X from the very beginning "just in case" they wanted to switch to X86

Likewise, I've really wanted a Mac for a long time now. The operating system is superb, and incredibly stable as it's based on BSD. The designers at Mac have done an epic job integrating an API and GUI over a unix base. The previous chipsets were Motorola I believe, these ran at the equivalent of double their clockspeed, however with AMD and Intel racing ahead in the market I doubt these custom CPUs will withstand competition for long.

I'm so saving for a Mac.

Thats basically exactly what Apple's stance on it was too: IBM and Motorola just couldn't keep up. Intel said, look at what we're releasing in the next few years, and IBM couldn't even get the G5 to 3GHz, let alone make a G5 for laptops

So now that they're packing Intel/X86 + Mac OS X + the general Maciness of it all, I'm definitely trading in my G5 for one of the newer ones.

!!!

its pretty close, cmon

apple = gay

apply = ipod

ipod = gay

just some simple 6th grade math

changed to what it could've also been

if you're going to troll, at least do it intelligently.

I'm not sure on IBM, as I know they designed the Xbox CPU which is clocked at just over 3GHz and had 3 cores, gotta remember IBM are one of the massive players in the PC market and Motorola make chipsets for hand held devices. Intel is though, indeed progressing far further than either will ever do and AMD is a little ahead of Intel also with all their new technology. Dual opterons now outperform their Xeon counterparts by miles and run cooler plus use less heat. I'd like Mac to port to AMD's base, and it probably would be beneficial to them but I doubt it'll happen.

Have you used a G4 btw? My boss at work has one, it runs an older version of OSx but it's stable and quick as hell and has been running without a format since forever, I imagine the G5 is considerably better? As for desktop Macs, which would you reccomend? Macs arre expensive, so I wonder if I can just purchase an x86 compatible version of OSX tiger to run on my Intel machines?

Peace nigz.

Bah, AMD all the way!

Yeah, apparently IBM just can't get the power consumption on the G5 low enough for Apple's taste or something. They'd rather cater to Microsoft and Nintendo and other companies who are going to push way more volume.

My first (modern, OS X capable) desktop Mac was an eMac G4 1GHz with a lowly 512MB of RAM. It ran fantastic, even on the latest versions of stuff. A friend of mine has all Powerbooks and iBook G4s at home, and he never complains or anything. G5s are even faster, of course. But I still use an iBook G3 even, which is really old (circa 2001) and it works just fine for web browsing and IM. They definitely hold their value; you won't be needing to replace a Mac for quite a while after you buy it.

And your claims are substantiated with what?

Actually Mac happen to be making a great operating system with one of the best and most stable kernels on the current market, the OSx kernel wipes the floor with Linux, not to mention nowadays Mac has support for most applications you'll ever need and they run without a single glitch. Now that x86 has come into the market, most Linux applications should easily execute under OSx as well as OSx has a very similar structure to all *nix OSes, all it takes is modifiying the location of the OSx libraries and recoding minor parts of OSS applications and they'll run without a glitch. Not to mention the quality of Mac hardware is astounding, and they havn't compromised on quality. And finally the Mac OS is secure as hell with Unix style file lockdowns.

So your assumptions are entirely wrong and unintelligable.

I LOVE THIS MAN

Sounds good, I'm definately going to save for an actual system. The build quality and aesthetics are astounding, the Mac designers clearly went all out on both OS quality and hardware quality.

I look forward to porting, Macs are great for developing as they include the BASH shell and various developers tools all precompiled into the terminal. Gotta lova apple.