Please don't call it a Macintosh

[Adonsa]

Fellow mackers,

If it contains an Intel chip, it won't be worthy of the name Macintosh. It'll be an abomination.

Recommendation to Apple - name it something else.

Do any of Apple's board members or other leadership ever read this website?

Regards,
Adonsa

[HomunQlus]

Couldn't agree more. With an Intel inside, I don't think you can call it a Mac or Macintosh anymore.

I don't know about board members of Apple, but I think some important people at Apple come by here from time to time.

[Pengu]

So does that mean a 680x (whatever 68k.. you know what I mean) isn't a mac because it's not PPC?

I share the pain of hearing this news, but simply because i fear for those of us with "new" PPC machines not getting full potential due to limited support from mainly third party developers, but also from Apple in the long term..

Intel != Microsoft. they aren't the devil. yes, the PPC architecture is "better" in some ways. but a really great CPU can't stand still for five years and still be really great.

[DevilRocks]

Yea, i do kind of agree with you guys and see what you are saying. I just dont see why they dont make a ppc version and an x86 version. Well they are, but it sounds like they are going to stop making ppc chips. If they keep doing both couldnt see it being such a problem i guess. In some ways it is kind of disapointing, But if you think of it positivlely, maybe we will be able to find a way for the x86macs to be able to dual boot with windows lol. Somehow i think you will be able to, windows may not be very stable but you can run almost anything on it lol.
Who knows
I just hope jobs isnt making a big mistake!

[elander]

If we should stop calling it Macintosh because they changed the cpu, we should have done so in the eighties, when they changed from 68000 to 68020, or in the nineties, when they switched from the 680x0 series to PowerPC.

The "Macintosh" experience isn't about the cpu inside, it's about the interface, usability and style. What is under the hood is irrelevant as long as it works and gives us the performance we need. Who built the processor really doesn't matter for the user experience.

Get over it and move on.

[Lt Major Burns]

an intel processor won't make it into a pc


it won't be able to run windows natively. it'll be possible, but it won't turn into windows because of a processor. the processor doesn't know what it is doing, it just crunches numbers for the OS. it's a blind slave. it'll be just as maccish, and it'll still be a Mac, (not a macintosh, that name is dead) the bit that will change will be the "power" part of it.

if it makes it run good, i like it.

[CreativeEye]

Well said Lt Major Burns!

I can't believe these cry babies who suddenly think that because an internal part of a computer has changed that their whole computing experience has come crashing down!

Open up you're mac and you'll see a world of different brand names in there.

And think about this - everyone who watched the keynote was blind tested for the first half hour or so as Jobs ran his demos on an Intel equiped MAC! Did those people who are now crying foul feel a little stupid when Jobs smirked on stage and told everyone that the show was being run from such a machine?! Basically - Apple could have switched out the chips on Macs 5 years ago by the sounds of it and if they hadnt told anyone we'd all be sat here on our MACS running on intel chips! ha!

Whats the most important thing about Macs? The OS! - The computing experience that Apple gives us by building a great OS and putting together the exact hardware that then runs the OS the best - like Jobs said - Tiger 'SINGS' on intel! Second to the OS comes form - and does anyone here think tht those two things are going to be compromised by having 'intel inside'?! Seriously?!?!? You bunch of jokers!

Suck it up! enjoy your Macs and enjoy the idea that future Macs now have a new spring of life with the new chip partnership!

[HomunQlus]

An Intel CPU will never be as robust or as strong as the G5 is. Fact. Apple was ahead with technology with the G-series processor.

Think different.