There goes the only good reason to use a Macintosh.

There goes the only good reason to use a Macintosh.

Posted Jun 7, 2005 23:34 UTC (Tue) by jcm (subscriber, #18262)
In reply to: There goes the only good reason to use a Macintosh. by joedrew
Parent article: Yellow Dog Linux sticks with PowerPC

On Jun 7, 2005 21:01 UTC (Tue) HoserHead spaketh thusly:

>> I only own a Powerbook to run Linux and now that they have stated that they want to produce cheap white box trash

> Whoa! What makes you think they want to produce cheap white box trash?

They've decided to switch to using Pentium 4s - aka "processors for whitebox PCs" - I dislike the whole Netburst (and later) architecture and don't want a laptop based on a regular Pentium. Maybe if Intel were making something different, I'd understand, but as it is, Apple want to be a Dell.

> If Apple switched the Motorola PowerPC currently in your laptop with an
> Intel, and switched all your software transparently, *would you notice*?

Yup. I bought a Powerbook to do a microkernel project before I graudated from college. I specifically want PowerPC and I spend large amounts of time hacking on ppc assembly, so really it's more useful to me to have my Debian running Apple Powerbook than a cheap whitebox POS. I reserve the right to be proven wrong by Apple not doing a Sony, but we'll see.

> An Apple is an Apple, regardless of the processor at its heart.

Not in my (Power)book.

Jon.

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