[Pc_Support] Mactel? Due to product focus? Volume? Yield issues?Other?

[Damien McKenna]

Reading the trades, as they say, one common thread that also seems to be
suggested by their refocusing on the media market (iPod, iTMS, MiniMac)
is that they're looking at the video market with a hardware DRM scheme
cooked up by Intel which would first be made available in a MiniMac
replacement.  I suspect an improved BIOS/OpenFirmware replacement would
be a requirement for this to properly work, it wouldn't be good if you
could just boot an "unlicensed" OS on the system and spool off the data
at will.

Also, I personally think that frustrations with the G5 is what drove
them away.  IBM have been very slow with furthering the G5 beyond the
initial release.

As for Intel vs AMD, I think they probably were given some far reaching
roadmaps regarding the Pentium-M successors and are aiming for that,
versus the nuclear power station that is the Pentium IV line.  Intel are
planning a dual-core low-power chip for next year, right around when
Steveo said they'd be introducing the first x86 systems.

Personally, roadmaps aside, I wish they went for the Athlon64 myself due
to it simply being a better system.

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