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06-30-2016, 02:36 AM
10 years on, Apple's risky move to Intel Macs is one of its biggest successes
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Nine years ago today, Apple launched the very first iPhone. But the foundation for its success had actually been laid a year earlier. Ten years ago, in the summer of 2006, Apple had just successfully transformed the Mac, completing a transition from using*PowerPC chips to Intel chips (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%27s_transition_to_Intel_processors)*and essentially transplanting the the "brains" of its entire line of personal computers.
The transition, which was first an**unced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in 2005, was a big deal. Apple was moving from IBM-built PowerPC processors in its Mac computers to x86 processors made by Intel
The shift was necessitated by the simple fact that IBM’s consumer processors — especially for laptops — simply weren’t competitive with the work Intel was doing. PowerPC processors had the potential to be very fast, but they ran hot and required a lot of power, which is bad for laptops. Moreover, IBM was late in delivering chips, and Steve Jobs felt Apple needed better chips sooner to be competitive. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/29/intel-macs-at-10/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Nine years ago today, Apple launched the very first iPhone. But the foundation for its success had actually been laid a year earlier. Ten years ago, in the summer of 2006, Apple had just successfully transformed the Mac, completing a transition from using*PowerPC chips to Intel chips (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%27s_transition_to_Intel_processors)*and essentially transplanting the the "brains" of its entire line of personal computers.
The transition, which was first an**unced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in 2005, was a big deal. Apple was moving from IBM-built PowerPC processors in its Mac computers to x86 processors made by Intel
The shift was necessitated by the simple fact that IBM’s consumer processors — especially for laptops — simply weren’t competitive with the work Intel was doing. PowerPC processors had the potential to be very fast, but they ran hot and required a lot of power, which is bad for laptops. Moreover, IBM was late in delivering chips, and Steve Jobs felt Apple needed better chips sooner to be competitive. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/29/intel-macs-at-10/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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