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Just install Debian. I have been expecting apple to do this for a while. Why pay $125 for an intel cpu when apple can stick a A4 in for $10.75?
by icefox 16y ago
Just install Debian. I have been expecting apple to do this for a while. Why pay $125 for an intel cpu when apple can stick a A4 in for $10.75?
- pyre 16y agoAs I stated in another post, because the A4 probably won't do as well at high-end tasks like photo/video editing. If Apple were to make such a move they could only attempt it on the low-end (i.e. the MacBook line), but then they would be segmenting their products between two architectures, which wouldn't go over so well with developers.
- leon_ 16y ago> but then they would be segmenting their products between two architectures, which wouldn't go over so well with developers hmm, my os x apps ran (until recently) on x86 and PPC ... and my extra work was: just test it on my old powermac g5.
- icefox 16y agoSo you are claiming you can only do photo editing if you have a multi-core, gpu accelerated less than six month old computer? For most people photo editing means stuff which we have been doing with _way_ less power than the A4 (photoshop ran on my P133). The hard part of video editing for most people means transcoding from one format to anther which takes forever anyway so if it runs in 1 hour or 5 really doesn't matter. The A4 is perfectly fine for photo editing and video editing. The A4 is more powerful than my wife's iBook G4 (which she loves) that does just fine for photo and video editing (which she does). Apple is pimping full screen applications for the next version of OSX. I would not be surprised if you someone isn't already playing around with 'launching' full screen apps off an iOS+A4 and not managed by OSX. The advantages are just too big to ignore.