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Macs get Intel chips, others wait

updated 12:50 pm EST, Fri January 13, 2006

No Yonah for PCs

While Apple fans cheer the release of the new Intel-based Macs, corporate buyers of notebooks from Dell and Hewlett-Packard are unhappy that consumers may purchase Duo Core machines from Apple now, while they will have to wait for weeks for that corporate policy, buying cycles, and necessity are forcing them to choose either current Dell and HP models or wait longer than expected for the new Intel processors. Many corporate notebook buyers frequently purchase tens of thousands of machines, and since most companies are unlikely to allow mass purchases of Macs instead of PCs, Intel now risks antagonising corporate buyers with the delayed availability of Yonah PCs.

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graey
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01/13, 01:04pm | report spam | close Reply |
Boohoohoo

Sp Wintel users have to wait for a product? Big deal! Welcome to the Mac world.

TCY
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01/13, 01:05pm | report spam | close Reply |
Wah

Waaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!

gambit23
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01/13, 01:08pm | report spam | close Reply |
Huh.

Um. I'm pretty sure no one will be dropping Intel because of this.

jpellino
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01/13, 01:23pm | report spam | close Reply |
Huh?

What are these people, twelve?

If the new machines are that important, they should make the good business decision to wait. It's not like existing machines are exploding or vanishing. You can't rush corporate purchase policies, but I have yet to see one that can't be delayed. Considering the PC world waits 4 years for an OS upgrade, this is cake.

If they can't wait, then they can get all the speedy Intel based computers thay seem to need from Apple. It's not like the laws of physics just got rewritten and the world can only operate with Windows running on top of Yonah boxes.

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01/13, 01:35pm | report spam | close Reply |
notebooks?

hm, they are talking about notebooks only. well neither mac users will get intel notebooks before febraury. they could have payed more attention what stevie said at keynote.

so whats the deal here? as far as I know iMac is not notebook computer

cnjartist
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01/13, 01:40pm | report spam | close Reply |
How does it feel...

�now that the shoe is on the other foot. Usually the PC users get the latest tech while the Mac crowd usually has to wait. (Talking mostly about 3rd party stuff, which Intel is arguably considered since they mostly supply the CPU, & sometimes the motherboards w/ integrated video for the really cheap PCs, but don�t actually build the PCs or any of the other components.) Do you ever hear us complain? Well, maybe sometimes, but the first time that the M$ users have to wait for something that Macs are getting now and everyone is up in arms. All kidding aside, from a business standpoint I can see why the corporate users are anxious to get their hands on the new chips. Some companies are on a quarterly budget based spending cycle, which the 1st quarter ending soon. Depending on how their department is doing, they might or might not have the cash to wait until the next quarter or quarter after that to buy new systems. Will this cause PC makers to drop Intel? Not very likely. Will the PC users have to suck it up & wait? All signs point to yes. Then again they are better off switching to Macs ;)

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01/13, 01:49pm | report spam | close Reply |
They're running WINDOWS

What do they need dual-core processors for, faster virus infections?

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Two words...

Wake-up Call

IT depts have become as ossified as the accounting depts and something needs to kick them out of their ruts and use their brains again. Other than getting patches on all their legions of machines and dealing with virus issues (and locking up fired employees-a bigger % of the job than most imagine), most IT folks have lost the innovative thinking that got them in the field. Time to shake things up and get Macs back in the mix.

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oh, BOO-HOO!!

more like hahahaahhahahh

tough break you bunch of sissies, i guess your handy think pads will be a little bit slower for a while. even thoughthis aint really "news", it sure is hilarious- Dell is mad- hahahahahaahah

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automorrow
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01/13, 02:11pm | report spam | close Reply |
Thats....

... what happpens when your late to the buffet...

I hope the keep their suited palms ot of our warehouse.

Last thing we need is a short supply because the mass of IT decided they wanted to eat Apples .. instead of their solient green.

Let the blob stay where it is.

oao

itguy05
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01/13, 02:36pm | report spam | close Reply |
F-them

You don't have to buy Intel. AMD has a much better solution than anything from Intel. Better performance, longer battery life, and just an all around better solution.

If they are that relant on POS CPU's from Intel, then they deserve to crumble. You have to be nimble, not tied to a single vendor.

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Who writes this stuff?

Is this a MacNN editorial or was this a real story investigated and reported on by an actual journalist?

Corporate buyers are not complaining in any significant numbers and even if they did, so what? Where are they going to go, AMD? The Mac processors represent just a drop in the bucket for Intel and so far they aren't really even shipping yet anyways.

MacNN editors need to stop posting their opinions as if they are actual news stories.

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A crying shame

I feel sorry for companies that have to use or lose their Q1 budgets now. These dual processor laptops are an absolute necessity for reading corporate email and printing badly formatted Word documents.

Perhaps they could spend the budget on Apple shares instead? Then buy more PC laptops when they sell them at 20% profit at the end of the quater?

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Speculation not real...

This is a speculation piece not backed up by any real reporting... don't read much into it.

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intel not getting yields

If this is true, it is probably because intel is not getting significant yields of the processor yet to feed the Dell and HP masses (ie, not yet ramped up). Same thing happened with the Geforce3 if you remember -- came out first for Mac.

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Re: f-them

If they are that relant on POS CPU's from Intel, then they deserve to crumble. You have to be nimble, not tied to a single vendor.

That's right. Just look at apple. They were tied to Motorola for all those years and got screwed. Then they moved to IBM, and then got screwed. Now they've finally learned, getting chips fom multiple vendors rather then just one...oh, wait, they're tied to a single vendor again, aren't they. Oh c***.

Of course, now that apple is using the same POS CPUs from Intel, I guess you'll be moving on to some other platform?

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re re: f-them

> AMD has a much better solution than anything from Intel.

Yeah, too bad AMD couldn't guarantee the supply otherwise Apple may have gone with them. But AMD has had problems keeping up with demand before and Apple does not want to go down that road again.

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01/13, 06:08pm | report spam | close Reply |
No, not AMD

From the last Keynote and the keynote where the switch to Intel was first announced, I really get the feeling (at least Jobs) is totally trilled with Intel and I think Intel is quite pleased to finally have Apple as a customer. Not b/c their this huge client (though if intel is also building and designing Apples MB......), but b/c they really are two innovative companies, with Apple, Intel has an opportunity to work WITH a company designing both the OS and the computer, in which Intel itself can be creative with out the M$ big brother. I agree with the previous poster, AMD would have been mistake, Intel can deliver, consistently.

As for the story, one Apple is waiting too, two how many chips can Apple actually be using, if Apple took all the chips, there really wouldn't have been that many PCs with the chips. FUD?

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re: A crying shame

"I feel sorry for companies that have to use or lose their Q1 budgets now. These dual processor laptops are an absolute necessity for reading corporate email and printing badly formatted Word documents."

Exactly. I've worked as a system admin for a company with thousands of Windows computers and 99% of the employees used them for Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and CRM's. We bought middle of the road Dell laptops and desktops and they were just fine. For the 1% who were really power users we bought better machines. For the 10% that made up the Creative groups we bought top of the line Macs and they lasted an average of 5 years. Money well spent.

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2 things....INQ = BS fluf

OK, Inquirer never reports "News". They just "Think" of some thing, and write what they know..... which is little it appears, even technically, when written in articles cited (!) So, more like DVORAK says, "Apple needs Levitation Pod, or MS wins" - So, I have strange things cross my mind..... This is an Opinion, editorial, with zero fact-checking, balance, or even minor technical knowledge....

Obviously, If Apple orders 250K CPU's & DELL / HP order 3 Million each - Who get's the first million??? Um, 1st come 1st serve likely.... but 250K # can be done using under 1% of capacity - and Apple needed some assurance, they wouldn't need to wait on CPU's...... as has been common in past.

So, the supply of Yonah is low.... it's 45 nm! G5 is still 90 nm..... (!) Maybe the newer ones are .65 - this is a couple generations more advanced - it will take time.... Intel never had a dual core P Pro/II/III - until now.

Will Apple get "Favorable" supply? ( Well, they could use some Marketing advice, from THE guy, to explain in english how geek things can do actual stuff for non- programmers.... ) Apple & Intel group up together - and same guy advertising "Lifestyle" - as we see, Steve learned well from....

Intel NOT needing to remake MINI/iMac clones to show Intel chips "can" be in cool stuff - Apple dumps legacy ( BIOS/Parallel / floppy/ etc. ) and Intel wants better wireless - who would get it in OS 1st? MS? or 1 new OS a year....

Whatever..... no news.... and bad opinion pieces from sub average "commentator", and non-story - yawn.... yeah good thing Apple ships PB's in a month.....( when they are ready?)

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Hah

Attention, all corporate robots:

SUCK IT...SUCK IT HARD!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Macs get Intel chips, others wait

updated 12:50 pm EST, Fri January 13, 2006

No Yonah for PCs

Boohoohoo

Wah

Huh.

Huh?

notebooks?

How does it feel...

They're running WINDOWS

Two words...

oh, BOO-HOO!!

Thats....

F-them

Who writes this stuff?

A crying shame

Speculation not real...

intel not getting yields

Re: f-them

re re: f-them

No, not AMD

re: A crying shame

2 things....INQ = BS fluf

Hah

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