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05/26/2005, 10:45am, EDT

Thursday, May 26th

Intel CEO: If you want security now, buy a Mac

During this week's Wall Street Journal "D: All Things Digital" conference, Intel chief executive Paul Otellini was pressed by Walt Mossberg about security on the Wintel platform, to which he offered a startling confession: He spends an hour a weekend removing spyware from his daughter's computer. Asked whether a mainstream computer user in search of immediate safety from security woes ought to buy a Mac instead of a Wintel PC, he said, "If you want to fix it tomorrow, maybe you should buy something else."


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05/26, 11:10am, EDT
Heheh, that's hilarious but does anyone have the exact quote?
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Yeah
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05/26, 11:18am, EDT
What's the exact quote? Is there any cofee? I need some.
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Go get some
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05/26, 11:23am, EDT
cofee. Then, when you perk up, you can get some coffee.

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05/26, 11:28am, EDT
Go here to see article
Link here
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RE:Go get some
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05/26, 11:28am, EDT
He needs to wake up one F at a time. (smile)
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Re: Exact quote?
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05/26, 11:29am, EDT
to the article
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05/26, 11:29am, EDT
Yeah, I'm wondering what was exactly said too. If he just said "consider something else" he could have been talking Linux for all we know. Still, coming from an Intel CEO, this is quite damning to MS. And good for Apple.

And who knows, with all the rumors of talks of collaborative work between Apple and Intel, maybe Intel will be supplying PPC chips to Apple after all. Perhaps they've seen the light and are slowly moving away from the Wintel platform. Wouldn't THAT be a kicker!
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Intel CEO: Buy a Mac
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05/26, 11:32am, EDT
He says that as he thinks to himself,

"As the all will soon contain Intel brains."
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Intel and PPC
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05/26, 11:50am, EDT
Could Intel be looking at joining the PPC consortium as a replacement for their tired x86 line? I wonder. Since all the consoles are going PPC, even MS's, Intel must be seeing the writing on the wall. They have tremendous fabrication technology. How else could they have made such an architecture stay relevant so long? Could we one day see all desktop computers running some PPC derived processor? The possibilities are endless, and most of them would be good for Apple.
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Gerald Ratner said...
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05/26, 11:51am, EDT
Mr Ratner effectively killed the company in 1991 with a speech to the Institute of Directors, when he joked that one of his firm's products was "total crap", and boasted that some of its ear rings were "cheaper than a prawn sandwich"
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